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News 24 does very basic formulaic stuff, with the odd exceptions.
National bulletins are more ambitious - and rehearsal is needed for this. Even the headline sequences, with bongs in some places but not others (in theory the bong separates the stories from each other), up sound (which when News 24 use it in their headlines often goes wrong as a result of a lack of rehearsal) etc.
As others have stated, with the greater use of screens and graphics, and more live graphics with reporter interaction, including camera moves and clips of VT, rehearsal is required. News 24 doesn't have camera operators moving cameras around on the floor - and doesn't have to rehearse camera moves because it only does very basic ones that don't relate to elements in the studio. News 24 doesn't have a lighting director or vision operator, so there is no issue about optimising the lighting for each sequence - it is a fixed plot that is hugely compromised. Nationals do big screens with multiple graphics sources, VT clips, graphics that a reporter needs to be aware of and interact with etc., and the vision mixer and sound supervisor, as well as the lighting director and camera operator (s) need to know what is going on. Doing this without rehearsal can look very eggy...
So basically noggin you're saying that rehearsal is vital for the nationals - so how are they going to manage when News 24 is in N6?
EDIT: Ah - perhaps I've got it, and perhaps got the reason why the 6 is the only bulletin not to come from N6 - are News 24 going to run back half hour programmes at 12.30 and 21.30 to allow prep in N6? They can't run one at 17.30 as that's the Huws hour.
The One O'Clock News will soon be produced by News 24, not a separate production team, so I suspect will have production values closer to those of News 24 than BBC One.
As you have noted - the Six will be coming from a different studio, which will not be on-air in the run-up to transmission.
I'm sure there are plans for how News 24 will stay on-air in the run-up to the Ten...
noggin
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Moz posted:
noggin posted:
Moz posted:
Why do they need to rehearse anyway? News 24 don't rehearse - and yes sometimes it shows, but this adds to the feel of live news, something that wouldn't go amiss during the bulletins.
News 24 does very basic formulaic stuff, with the odd exceptions.
National bulletins are more ambitious - and rehearsal is needed for this. Even the headline sequences, with bongs in some places but not others (in theory the bong separates the stories from each other), up sound (which when News 24 use it in their headlines often goes wrong as a result of a lack of rehearsal) etc.
As others have stated, with the greater use of screens and graphics, and more live graphics with reporter interaction, including camera moves and clips of VT, rehearsal is required. News 24 doesn't have camera operators moving cameras around on the floor - and doesn't have to rehearse camera moves because it only does very basic ones that don't relate to elements in the studio. News 24 doesn't have a lighting director or vision operator, so there is no issue about optimising the lighting for each sequence - it is a fixed plot that is hugely compromised. Nationals do big screens with multiple graphics sources, VT clips, graphics that a reporter needs to be aware of and interact with etc., and the vision mixer and sound supervisor, as well as the lighting director and camera operator (s) need to know what is going on. Doing this without rehearsal can look very eggy...
So basically noggin you're saying that rehearsal is vital for the nationals - so how are they going to manage when News 24 is in N6?
EDIT: Ah - perhaps I've got it, and perhaps got the reason why the 6 is the only bulletin not to come from N6 - are News 24 going to run back half hour programmes at 12.30 and 21.30 to allow prep in N6? They can't run one at 17.30 as that's the Huws hour.
The One O'Clock News will soon be produced by News 24, not a separate production team, so I suspect will have production values closer to those of News 24 than BBC One.
As you have noted - the Six will be coming from a different studio, which will not be on-air in the run-up to transmission.
I'm sure there are plans for how News 24 will stay on-air in the run-up to the Ten...
