The Newsroom

N6 video wall

(February 2009)

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MO
Moz
Jugalug posted:
It would look stupid whatever their expression!

Says someone who can't even vote properly!
JO
Joe
Moz posted:
Jugalug posted:
It would look stupid whatever their expression!

Says someone who can't even vote properly!

I misread the question!

That's a very poor excuse.
MO
Moz
Jugalug posted:
Moz posted:
Jugalug posted:
It would look stupid whatever their expression!

Says someone who can't even vote properly!

I misread the question!

That's a very poor excuse.

I know!
WO
Worzel
I take it Moz, you'll feed the info back to the relevant parties at the BBC to see what they have to say?
DV
DVB Cornwall
One element of it failed completely for a couple of minutes this afternoon, It went black.
DO
dosxuk
Worzel posted:
I take it Moz, you'll feed the info back to the relevant parties at the BBC to see what they have to say?


Yeah Moz, we're waiting for their responses! I hope you remembered to ask them over lunch.
NG
noggin Founding member
Moz posted:
BBC News spent a lot of money installing Barco screens in N6, but for most of the time most of the walls just display a newsroom background.

Rarely, and today's Antarctica story was an example, the use a full back wall image, but this is usually for less important stories lower down the running order and far from the norm.

Should they make better use?


It is an inevitable result of them designing a studio for bulletins, and then deciding to move a continuous news channel in.

With minimal downtime to allow custom screen effects to be programmed, a relatively inflexible and unfriendly screen controller system, l;ess effort available to create bespoke graphics and VTs for the screens, and little time to brief the crew (so camera moves work with the effects and the vision mixer can achieve them) and set-up special sequences for the One and Ten O'Clock bulletins it simply isn't possible to use them to their full advantage.

If they had got a better control system, or had downtime in the studios, it would be possible to do more (including more line-up)...

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