BB
Does N8 always look so monochromatic? Isn't there usually a bit more red visible in the set? I can't quite put my finger on where the red is missing from, but I'm sure it doesn't usually look quite so... grey. Are there usually some red up-lights somewhere perhaps?
Also, it's a very small and pretty picky point, but I'm not sure that I approve of the use of an ampersand in the middle of a sentence on the ticker, as seen in the screencap above. I guess that's just a question of personal taste though.
One other thing: during the 2140 business round-up, the business headline bed was one I hadn't heard before, on the BBC News Channel at least - does World News have its own business bed?
Also, it's a very small and pretty picky point, but I'm not sure that I approve of the use of an ampersand in the middle of a sentence on the ticker, as seen in the screencap above. I guess that's just a question of personal taste though.
One other thing: during the 2140 business round-up, the business headline bed was one I hadn't heard before, on the BBC News Channel at least - does World News have its own business bed?
DF
To answer the question about N8: it's normally lit blue in the corner but occasionally it is red, a couple of caps below show the comparison. It's also shame N8 is such an awkward shape because that direct side on angle showing the Barco always looks incredibly uncomfortable with the presenter having to shuffle themselves to the side to face the camera and the whole desk being in view. It could look very, very nice and a lot less awkward with a few tweaks.
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JW
On World, the graphic on the newswall normally has red accents. Also, the glass panel behind Joanna is lit either red (WNT), purple-red (GMT), amber (Impact), blue (Sport Today), red (The Hub) or Deep Blue (Business Edition) during BBC World programming. Only the weekend bulletins maintain the ice-clear colouring you have in your shot above.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
WO
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
On World, the graphic on the newswall normally has red accents. Also, the glass panel behind Joanna is lit either red (WNT), purple-red (GMT), amber (Impact), blue (Sport Today), red (The Hub) or Deep Blue (Business Edition) during BBC World programming. Only the weekend bulletins maintain the ice-clear colouring you have in your shot above.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
DO
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
Based on the levels of saturation, especially of the blue, and the fact it's an office environment, I would expect that it's all LED based allowing you to make any colour you want. You can just about see one of the lower lights on the floor behind the glass in this picture.
By frosting the glass, it's quite easy to get it to take colour with relatively low powered lights.
Using normal lights would generate a lot of heat (especially for an office), and the levels of saturation shown would require the gels to be changed often, or use dichroic glass (but this comes with the downside of colour fringing).
On World, the graphic on the newswall normally has red accents. Also, the glass panel behind Joanna is lit either red (WNT), purple-red (GMT), amber (Impact), blue (Sport Today), red (The Hub) or Deep Blue (Business Edition) during BBC World programming. Only the weekend bulletins maintain the ice-clear colouring you have in your shot above.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
Based on the levels of saturation, especially of the blue, and the fact it's an office environment, I would expect that it's all LED based allowing you to make any colour you want. You can just about see one of the lower lights on the floor behind the glass in this picture.
By frosting the glass, it's quite easy to get it to take colour with relatively low powered lights.
Using normal lights would generate a lot of heat (especially for an office), and the levels of saturation shown would require the gels to be changed often, or use dichroic glass (but this comes with the downside of colour fringing).
JW
Why were Fiona and Joanna, etc, in the World studion anyway? Was it because the Channel studio was busy with the Oscars?
CH
Between 2130 and 2200 the News Channel are always in N8 to allow for preparations for the 10.
Why were Fiona and Joanna, etc, in the World studion anyway? Was it because the Channel studio was busy with the Oscars?
Between 2130 and 2200 the News Channel are always in N8 to allow for preparations for the 10.
NG
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
LED much more likely to be used then Gels. Gelled lamps have rapidly fallen out of favour for colour effects in many situations - particularly in studios where you need to be able to change colour quickly. (If you use Parcan type lights or ground rows and gels, you have to change a lot of gels to change the lighing colour (which takes people and time) - or you have to have lots of different lights individually gelled and plots that select different banks of lights depending on the colours you want - which makes it less cost effective)
Whilst you can get scrollers and other similar motorised gel lamps (in fact at least one BBC News studio uses scrollers for lighting the header boards above the Barco walls) - LED lighting is much more common these days, particularly as it allows very quick colour changes (and you can chose pretty much any colour - within the colourimetry of the LEDs in the lamp)
The LED units have clusters of Red, Green and Blue LEDs, and are designed - like a TV "pixel" - to generate any colour you want by altering the amount of Red, Green and Blue light generated.
noggin
Founding member
On World, the graphic on the newswall normally has red accents. Also, the glass panel behind Joanna is lit either red (WNT), purple-red (GMT), amber (Impact), blue (Sport Today), red (The Hub) or Deep Blue (Business Edition) during BBC World programming. Only the weekend bulletins maintain the ice-clear colouring you have in your shot above.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Not sure where the coloured lights are located behind the glass.
Looks to me that there are probably some studio floor lights in the newsroom with different Gels in that allows them to change the colour of the side wall of the newsroom.
LED much more likely to be used then Gels. Gelled lamps have rapidly fallen out of favour for colour effects in many situations - particularly in studios where you need to be able to change colour quickly. (If you use Parcan type lights or ground rows and gels, you have to change a lot of gels to change the lighing colour (which takes people and time) - or you have to have lots of different lights individually gelled and plots that select different banks of lights depending on the colours you want - which makes it less cost effective)
Whilst you can get scrollers and other similar motorised gel lamps (in fact at least one BBC News studio uses scrollers for lighting the header boards above the Barco walls) - LED lighting is much more common these days, particularly as it allows very quick colour changes (and you can chose pretty much any colour - within the colourimetry of the LEDs in the lamp)
The LED units have clusters of Red, Green and Blue LEDs, and are designed - like a TV "pixel" - to generate any colour you want by altering the amount of Red, Green and Blue light generated.
JW
You catch glimpses of the lighting strips at various points during this film, particularly from 3'00" onwards, including what appears to be a full "powering-up" of the set. If I saw it correctly in one shot (about 4'50"), the light appears to be like a small, cigar shaped/sized cylinder, as opposed to be the traditional "footlight" that one imagines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQM-kMPoy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQM-kMPoy0
PE
There was a video of the newsnight studio powering up at about the time Channel 5 claimed they were getting rid of noddys and the boards cycled through several colours before they reached newsnight's purple. I presume this is the scroller?
Pete
Founding member
Whilst you can get scrollers and other similar motorised gel lamps (in fact at least one BBC News studio uses scrollers for lighting the header boards above the Barco walls)
There was a video of the newsnight studio powering up at about the time Channel 5 claimed they were getting rid of noddys and the boards cycled through several colours before they reached newsnight's purple. I presume this is the scroller?
GS
There was a video of the newsnight studio powering up at about the time Channel 5 claimed they were getting rid of noddys and the boards cycled through several colours before they reached newsnight's purple. I presume this is the scroller?
Yes. If you're using them in live theatre, unless the colour call (the sequence in which the gel sheets are ordered) is made to suit your lighting plot, you'll hear them whirring through until you get to the colour you want. Colours are selected using a DMX (0-255) address, so each colour-point on the scroll is findable by calling up that address on a lighting desk.
Gavin Scott
Founding member
Whilst you can get scrollers and other similar motorised gel lamps (in fact at least one BBC News studio uses scrollers for lighting the header boards above the Barco walls)
There was a video of the newsnight studio powering up at about the time Channel 5 claimed they were getting rid of noddys and the boards cycled through several colours before they reached newsnight's purple. I presume this is the scroller?
Yes. If you're using them in live theatre, unless the colour call (the sequence in which the gel sheets are ordered) is made to suit your lighting plot, you'll hear them whirring through until you get to the colour you want. Colours are selected using a DMX (0-255) address, so each colour-point on the scroll is findable by calling up that address on a lighting desk.