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14th January 2013 - The Worlds Newsroom (January 2013)

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RK
Rkolsen
noggin posted:
Rkolsen posted:
m_in_m posted:

Galleries A (virtual), B (flagship programmes), C (World), D (London) & E (domestic). Galleries A, C and E are in the newsroom and can be seen in the background of shots from studio E. I believe there was a desire for any gallery to be able to run any studio but cost prohibited it.


I honestly would be shocked if each studio did not have a gallery.


Though it would potentially have been a lot better if studios and galleries were not tied together.

Many new studio buildings have galleries and studios that are independent of each other. This has huge benefits for maintenance, and also allows more flexible deployment of resources. Some big studio shows don't need a big gallery, some small studio shows need a lot of gallery resources. Some shows need a big sound desk, some don't etc.

Also - some studio complexes have more studios than galleries, allowing galleries to switch between studios for various reasons. (Some shows have standing sets, but only broadcast at certain times of the day for instance)


I can understand why the BBC would want galleries independent from each other with different services so that they wouldn't all go down in the event of a technical failure.

Just for comparison I believe at 30 Rock a few of the studios can use different galleries. I think they are all independent with their own equipment but NBC has a master router where they can tie everything into one another. I think most are identical to one another. But as far as I know they've never went off air.

For example the Today Show studio uses their primary gallery for the first two hours and the studio is linked to the gallery used for Late Night with Seth Meyers (which films in the evening) for the final two hours. They have the ability where if they need to break in for a special report (going out live to the nation at once) / or update the west coast feed (which would be updated at 10 AM eastern time) the other parts of the show can continue on as normal in a different part of the studio.

Nightly News uses the Today Show gallery but on instances where msnbc uses the studio it can be connected to an msnbc gallery.
Last edited by Rkolsen on 30 May 2015 4:42am - 3 times in total
SP
Steve in Pudsey
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.
CH
chris
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


And with that changing to A now, we'll likely see them move there if there are any similar problems in the future.
RK
Rkolsen
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


I take it the balcony position is a type of thing where all galleries would have access to because of it's multiple uses.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
chris posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


And with that changing to A now, we'll likely see them move there if there are any similar problems in the future.

Probably, although as had been said there is no reason why they couldn't go to another studio. Thinking about the previous example where they used B's studio floor, they didn't really have many options - domestic are in C at 5pm so the Six can rehearse in E.

I guess they may have made a virtual version of the balcony to use in A if the balcony is unavailable.
HB
HarryB
Rkolsen posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


I take it the balcony position is a type of thing where all galleries would have access to because of it's multiple uses.

I think so yes, but then it is strange because the trundle cam is only accessible I think to Studio E, during News at Five and Nine, Studios A and C cannot use the trundle cam and instead use a recording of the newsroom which is replayed every day.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
HarryBNF posted:
Rkolsen posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


I take it the balcony position is a type of thing where all galleries would have access to because of it's multiple uses.

I think so yes, but then it is strange because the trundle cam is only accessible I think to Studio E, during News at Five and Nine, Studios A and C cannot use the trundle cam and instead use a recording of the newsroom which is replayed every day.

Isn't that because the camera zooming into the back if Studio E will look strange if the programme isn't in there?
HB
HarryB
Steve in Pudsey posted:
HarryBNF posted:
Rkolsen posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
i-lied posted:
How come then when they had problems with the screen and resorted to a studio they had to use B for OS?

Well, OS normally uses Gallery B, so that gallery is staffed. While the gallery is producing OS the studio floor can't be used for anything else, so on that occasion B was the obvious choice if the problem was with the balcony set up.


I take it the balcony position is a type of thing where all galleries would have access to because of it's multiple uses.

I think so yes, but then it is strange because the trundle cam is only accessible I think to Studio E, during News at Five and Nine, Studios A and C cannot use the trundle cam and instead use a recording of the newsroom which is replayed every day.

Isn't that because the camera zooming into the back if Studio E will look strange if the programme isn't in there?

On the Five and Nine, the recorded trundle cam is focused on the newsroom with Studio E out of the shot.
DE
deejay
The trundle camera is only available to Gallery E as it's tied into that gallery's Mosart system. The balcony area can be used in a few different ways. When used simply for the weather, it's just a single camera working into one gallery. If this is Gallery E, then they can use trundle camera to zoom across the newsroom to the balcony and cut to the balcony camera all through Mosart. When the balcony is used for Outside Source, extra handheld cameras are rigged, all radio-camera linked to whichever gallery is making the programme. These additional cameras appear on OSs in that gallery. This is why the balcony is able to work into Galleries A, B or E. In theory it could also work to C and D. The thing that takes a bit more working out for the Outside Source programme itself is the feeding of the touchscreen, which is generated in the gallery via Vizrt.
WO
Worzel
deejay posted:
The trundle camera is only available to Gallery E as it's tied into that gallery's Mosart system. The balcony area can be used in a few different ways. When used simply for the weather, it's just a single camera working into one gallery. If this is Gallery E, then they can use trundle camera to zoom across the newsroom to the balcony and cut to the balcony camera all through Mosart. When the balcony is used for Outside Source, extra handheld cameras are rigged, all radio-camera linked to whichever gallery is making the programme. These additional cameras appear on OSs in that gallery. This is why the balcony is able to work into Galleries A, B or E. In theory it could also work to C and D. The thing that takes a bit more working out for the Outside Source programme itself is the feeding of the touchscreen, which is generated in the gallery via Vizrt.


When the Balcony was used for Christian Fraser's Election Hub, was the touchscreen fed from E's Gallery then? Or was B being used to generate the content for that?
NG
noggin Founding member
Worzel posted:
deejay posted:
The trundle camera is only available to Gallery E as it's tied into that gallery's Mosart system. The balcony area can be used in a few different ways. When used simply for the weather, it's just a single camera working into one gallery. If this is Gallery E, then they can use trundle camera to zoom across the newsroom to the balcony and cut to the balcony camera all through Mosart. When the balcony is used for Outside Source, extra handheld cameras are rigged, all radio-camera linked to whichever gallery is making the programme. These additional cameras appear on OSs in that gallery. This is why the balcony is able to work into Galleries A, B or E. In theory it could also work to C and D. The thing that takes a bit more working out for the Outside Source programme itself is the feeding of the touchscreen, which is generated in the gallery via Vizrt.


When the Balcony was used for Christian Fraser's Election Hub, was the touchscreen fed from E's Gallery then? Or was B being used to generate the content for that?


I'd imagine it was either generated in E, or possibly locally, to allow for local rehearsal independent of the gallery?
MI
m_in_m
noggin posted:
Worzel posted:
deejay posted:
The trundle camera is only available to Gallery E as it's tied into that gallery's Mosart system. The balcony area can be used in a few different ways. When used simply for the weather, it's just a single camera working into one gallery. If this is Gallery E, then they can use trundle camera to zoom across the newsroom to the balcony and cut to the balcony camera all through Mosart. When the balcony is used for Outside Source, extra handheld cameras are rigged, all radio-camera linked to whichever gallery is making the programme. These additional cameras appear on OSs in that gallery. This is why the balcony is able to work into Galleries A, B or E. In theory it could also work to C and D. The thing that takes a bit more working out for the Outside Source programme itself is the feeding of the touchscreen, which is generated in the gallery via Vizrt.


When the Balcony was used for Christian Fraser's Election Hub, was the touchscreen fed from E's Gallery then? Or was B being used to generate the content for that?


I'd imagine it was either generated in E, or possibly locally, to allow for local rehearsal independent of the gallery?

Christian's producer did have a small gallery to use which I think he suggested had possibly not been used previously so I think that was used at some times.

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