Why have they used, what appear to be standard theater lighting, namly a shed load of "profile" lights they've got to be for decoration only, yet still look ****. The only "real" light there is the one almost facing the camera with the barn doors on. How very odd.
Looking at the set from that angle, what is that ladder type thing? it looks like a metal blind of some sort.
Unless this is where the special glass comes into play.
Also notice how the balconey goes thing at one point, very strange.
Plus we don't know how far round the balconey goes, whether it goes to where we can see to or continues on round.
It will be interesting to see the full show on monday.
Going back to the special glass, it looks really strange seeing the newsroom like that, especially now that I'm used to seeing the whole thing, I wonder whether they'd ever introduce anything like that into the current set/style of set either filling up the whole window behind them, or just a small image, though I suppose that's what the news wall is for.
From what I've seen, it looks great. Although the studio is a little too american-looking for me, maybe it'll grow on me. I dont like that ladder thing at all. The main titles are good, they remind me of the Australian Sky News Active animation. I like the sounds, especially the swoosh sound as the titles minimise down to the ticker.
There's some orange animation happening on the screen down below, I want to know what that's all about!
Well Sky managed to do RI:SE in 16:9 (even the news - though not very well) - and Sky Sports is also 16:9 at times - it isn't brain surgery. (News 24 has been 16:9 since 1997...)
One thing that did strike me was the butchering of footage to 16:9 - I'm all for 16:9 coverage but I feel this could have been done a little more tastefully? Obviously a lot of the footage at the moment won't neccessarily be from Sky cameras - which will mean 4:3 footage - but Sky were very good in regards to it during Rise.
I think I spotted a Sky News clip in there too and it did appeared to be 4:3 lopped off...I may be wrong though. I certainly assume that anything filmed exclusively for five (there will be some stuff surely) will be entirely 16:9.
Can Sky News film in 16:9 at the moment or will their editing facilties just not allow it at the moment?
Can't agree that Sky did 16:9 well on RI:SE. They often did a full crop of 4:3 material to full-frame 16:9 (soft and usually poorly cropped), and on other occasions didn't convert 4:3 material at all (so short fat people), or incorrectly converted 16:9 material as if it were 4:3 (so tall thin people)
I would expect that most of Sky's field cameras are 16:9 capable (in Britain at least) - so lives should appear in full 16:9 (it is quick to flip ratios on a switchable camera).
However if they are sharing footage with Sky's main operation - then I suspect the bulk of recorded material will remain 4:3 for a while (and be converted to 16:9 for five transmission) - otherwise every normal edit area at Sky would need to be able to convert 16:9 material shot initially for five into 4:3 to include it in Sky News reports.
Feature material shot specifically for five might be 16:9 though I guess.
Be interesting to see.
I didn't see the first bulletin - did they convert 4:3 to 16:9 via 14:9 pillarbox or fully zoom to 16:9? I hope not the latter as the quality drop is really noticable (and most agency material will look terrible as it isn't framed for cropping...)
I must admit I don't recall lots about Rise - but during the earlier (perhaps more zany days) - news was always in 4:3 and stayed that way...no cropping or stretching.
I do remember other bits being butchered to 16:9 though - but I was talking specifically about material from Sky News for use during the news bulletins. I don't know if they changed policy as the show changed though.
And material tonight was cut from 4:3 to 16:9 full crop. Some of the Asia stuff which was already slightly fuzzy didn't look too funny and we lost a few tops of heads.
I suppose it'll just be a case of putting up with it for 6 months or so when Sky move in to the new building with five...and I assume move to 16:9 server playout. But then I'd hope for a lot of domestic material to be filmed exlusive for the five news bulletins. But whether that happens remains to be seen. If they're going to rely on 4:3 footage and then just chop to 16:9 then they might as well held off going widescreen......OR at least treating it slightly more tastefully like the BBC do (still not great but 14:9) is better than nothing!
The set design was also extended to lighting design which explains the profiles. It's standard in US studios and is being used by Sky for this set because that's how the set is designed.
All domestically originated material by Five News crews will be shot and tx'ed 16:9, no idea what if anything that means for the main operation right now.
The set design was also extended to lighting design which explains the profiles. It's standard in US studios and is being used by Sky for this set because that's how the set is designed.
Not sure what that means. "Set design extended to lighting design"? All sets have lighting 'designed' for them. With regard to the "profile" lights, they are a very standard method of lighting in television studios in the UK (not just the US) and have been for some time. And as for the direction they're facing, I thought people had said it was a double-decked studio? Couldn't they be lighting the downstairs portion?
In this case the set and lighting was all designed by the same outside firm. They are using profiles almost exclusively to light positions, this is unusual in the UK were the more standard key/back/fill lighting methods tend to be employed in studios.
In this case the set and lighting was all designed by the same outside firm. They are using profiles almost exclusively to light positions, this is unusual in the UK were the more standard key/back/fill lighting methods tend to be employed in studios.
OK, I see what you mean - the lighting was designed by the US firm too. But lighting with profiles is certainly not unusual in the UK. You still need key, back and fill lights whatever source you use. Using profile lamps for some or all of those is not an exclusively American idea!