Some problems with the "newsroom" background in N6 tonight. At around 7.30 one wall went black during an interview and they cut to a shot of Joanna and Matthew looking nervous!
And the rest of the background no longer appears to be animating?! Just static!? No flickering screens etc. Hope they get it back soon because I love the lifts going up and down.
EDIT: The flickering screens and lifts are back! Thank god!
I noticed one time during breakfast, a part of the background started flickering, they just kept the shot on it though, it almost felt deliberate.
He often presents the Five O Clock News Hour as well as presents Dateline London. He used to present a regular slot on the channel, and is one of the Newsnight presenters.
Yep - Gavin was one of the original launch News 24 presenters. He presented the 1600-1900 slot with Sian Williams ISTR.
And he then moved to the 1900-2300 shift with Carrie Gracie. That's when I first saw him during the china red and cream era.
Just head the woman presenter say you are watching the BBC News channel followed by Simon tutting and what sounded like having someone having their wrists slapped!!
Just head the woman presenter say you are watching the BBC News channel followed by Simon tutting and what sounded like having someone having their wrists slapped!!
Oh yeah, they're only supposed to refer to it as 'BBC News' on the channel itself, aren't they? I'm loving all these mistakes - it's really showing what a crap decision it was to remove the News 24 brand. Last week, it was just BBC News 24 - no confusion. Now, we have a mixture of BBC News, BBC News Channel, News Channel and some are still referring to it as News 24!
I really think the lack of money spent on this rebrand is becoming painfully apparent. Forget the Daily Mail, for what was needed done 550k was nothing. And it shows.
Component 1: New Titles.
Lets just resurrect our ideas from the end of the last century and combine them with some elements of the current ones. Hmm, looks a bit nondescript, lets just do lots of quick cuts and hope it looks fresh and modern.
Component 2: Set
Right, we have a bunch of big screens we've never worked with before. Lets just modernise our old projector graphics and pretend no-one will notice the screens aren't being used to any good effect.
Component 3: Colour Scheme
What colours are 'in'? White! Lets do lots of that then - it won't be boring on a 24 hour news channel. In my opinion the set only looks good during sport, because they actually do something with the screens and have some nice movement and colour (even though the presentation style is straight off Sportsline)
Component 4: Graphics
Right, we need something easily transferable from a 24 hour news channel to a two man gallery in some tiny local studio. Lets make life as easy as possible for ourselves and keep them as plain and simple as humanly possible.
Component 5: Integrate!
Right, most importantly, we want our 24 hour news service to feel like the centre of our news gathering organisation so we can get that bloody award back off Sky. So lets make it feel like our national bulletins that average 5 million viewers are dipping into our 24 hour coverage that doesn't average a tenth of that figure. Lets get our high profile journalists to not be working on a high quality report to file for the 6 or 10, lets get them to file a report as quick as possible and then spend the rest of the day talking to a camera repeating themselves.
Combine them all together and what have you got? A pathetic half arsed attempt at a integrated news service completely unfit for the world's biggest domestic news gathering service that will only need more money thrown at it to fix it. Well done.
