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Should ITV News keep the atrium background?

(May 2005)

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Brekkie
A simple question - do you think ITV News should keep the atrium background used for it's election night coverage in place of the blue squares?


If not, do you think the squares should remain - or have you got another idea about what virtual background should be used on the ITV News wall?
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Greg
Hell yea!
NI
Nicky
The atrium background was by far much better than the awful distracting 'moving squares' animation. I think they should keep it, it makes the curved screen look like a window, looking down on the rest of the building.
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I T V 1
I would wait until's ITV relaunch though in the Autumn. I dont think the newschannel should have it, as their current take on ITV News's look is very bad. The NC should have its own background.
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Brekkie
A pretty overwhelming verdict here.


I tend to agree, but I think some modifications are needed.

Namely, the Atrium is very square with lots of straight clean lines - but the ITV Newswall is curved and I felt this made it obvious it was virtual.

I'd suggest the Atrium view would only be in the centre of the news wall, with the ends - where the interview screens usual appear - being made to appear as actual screens throughout the programme.

P.S. And doesn't the studio look so much better now the awful Election desk has gone!
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fanoftv
Brekkie Boy posted:
A pretty overwhelming verdict here.


I tend to agree, but I think some modifications are needed.

Namely, the Atrium is very square with lots of straight clean lines - but the ITV Newswall is curved and I felt this made it obvious it was virtual.

I'd suggest the Atrium view would only be in the centre of the news wall, with the ends - where the interview screens usual appear - being made to appear as actual screens throughout the programme.

P.S. And doesn't the studio look so much better now the awful Election desk has gone!


I'm not sure that it did appear that virtual. Obviously I knew it was virtual. The only bit that did seem on was behind Gerald Scarfe, as this was a stationary shot used. But I think it worked well, and even if not used for the main news, it would be nice for it to be used for the News Channel, and hopefully some lovely looking and animating election style graphics to match!
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TELEVISION
I think the atrium background would be brilliant for ITV News, obviously not as good as the real thing, but it would look a lot better than the pointless floating squares. Graphics can easily be shown on top of the atrium background, as we saw on election night. It would look a lot better than the BBC's fake newsroom.
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mark Founding member
I think the atrium background worked really well during the election programme, and could be exactly the sort of thing the News Channel needs. It's a common criticism of the News Channel that the lack of a newsroom-style background makes it seem cut off from the news.

I like the idea of having the atrium in the centre of the newswall, with two virtual 'screens' permanently at either end.

A very basic effort, but how about this sort of thing...

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/itv1.jpg
DA
David_02


That's fantastic!
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msim


That really is a good idea, and shows what the newswall could be used for on the news channel to differentiate it from a normal ITV1 bulletin. Maybe the clock hands on either side of the atrium could move in real time when the 'interview screens' arent in use. The top of the hour could start with a presenter in front of one of the screens as the minute hand strikes, read the first headline, the normal titles played and then the other headlines read from the same position.
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Andrew Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
A simple question - do you think ITV News should keep the atrium background used for it's election night coverage in place of the blue squares?


If not, do you think the squares should remain - or have you got another idea about what virtual background should be used on the ITV News wall?

I don't think they should use it for ITV News on ITV1, as for most of the time there are story specific graphics shown anyway

They should definally use it for the ITV News Channel though, unlike the idea quoted half a dozen times above, they could just use the usual patchwork 16 screens picture at the side, like they do anyway
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Adam
Andrew posted:

I don't think they should use it for ITV News on ITV1, as for most of the time there are story specific graphics shown anyway


...which look worse than the blue squares, especially because the graphics don't quite meet the top/bottom of the wall.

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