PO
When the current RTE News studio was launched it coincided with RTE News going widescreen in 2006.
So with RTE News getting a new look in January 09 it has been brough
forward by six months, where it is usually unveiled in September alongside the new autumn schedule.
Possible reasons what the new set is coinciding with
1. RTE News is been rebranded to mark Nuacht RTE relocating to TG4 in Galway (up to 30 people are be relocated)
2. The possibility it to coincide with RTE's new Breakfast programmme- Make the set bigger i.e a soft area. It had been reported in the media back in April 08; Irish independent that RTE were hiring extra camera personnel to work morning shifts from 7am, a shift in RTE newsroom work practices! But would this programme see the light of day with the current financial contraints facing RTE and.
3. Give the RTE News set a more international feel to it i.e revert back to using primary colours and dare i say it use of more LCD/Plasma screens to help be part of the core schedule of the RTE International channel.
4. These recessionary times are going to see RTE delve into its archives and return one of it's news set from the 1980s to help get us into the mood!!
On a side note, I wonder what is going to happen to Robert Shortt when he returns from Washington, what position will he return to??
And, will the laptops survive the relaunch or will it be a desk incorporated job!?
So with RTE News getting a new look in January 09 it has been brough
forward by six months, where it is usually unveiled in September alongside the new autumn schedule.
Possible reasons what the new set is coinciding with
1. RTE News is been rebranded to mark Nuacht RTE relocating to TG4 in Galway (up to 30 people are be relocated)
2. The possibility it to coincide with RTE's new Breakfast programmme- Make the set bigger i.e a soft area. It had been reported in the media back in April 08; Irish independent that RTE were hiring extra camera personnel to work morning shifts from 7am, a shift in RTE newsroom work practices! But would this programme see the light of day with the current financial contraints facing RTE and.
3. Give the RTE News set a more international feel to it i.e revert back to using primary colours and dare i say it use of more LCD/Plasma screens to help be part of the core schedule of the RTE International channel.
4. These recessionary times are going to see RTE delve into its archives and return one of it's news set from the 1980s to help get us into the mood!!
On a side note, I wonder what is going to happen to Robert Shortt when he returns from Washington, what position will he return to??
And, will the laptops survive the relaunch or will it be a desk incorporated job!?
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Not quite...
Changes on the way for RTÉ TV News
polo23 posted:
So with RTE News getting a new look in January 09...
Not quite...
Changes on the way for RTÉ TV News
PO
If the RTE News new look isnt coming until February, what studio
are they going to be using for temporary accommodation for the month of January
They are currently in studio 5, the home of The Afternoon Show and that
will be returning i'm sure the second week of Jan .I'd say must of the other studios will be used also as regular studio based programming will also be returing after the festive break
are they going to be using for temporary accommodation for the month of January
They are currently in studio 5, the home of The Afternoon Show and that
will be returning i'm sure the second week of Jan .I'd say must of the other studios will be used also as regular studio based programming will also be returing after the festive break
RD
None of these, RTÉ International is not happening any time soon thanks to the credit crunch. As for Breakfast News, I'll believe it when I see, RTÉ have announced it so many times since the mid-1990s and have never actually managed to put a programme on air.
Nope - as far as I can tell the studio change is happening solely because RTÉ finally managed to figure out how awful chocolate brown is a colour for a news service. Hopefully the next studio will be something more remeniscent of their late 1990s/early 2000s efforts.
rdd
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polo23 posted:
When the current RTE News studio was launched it coincided with RTE News going widescreen in 2006.
So with RTE News getting a new look in January 09 it has been brough
forward by six months, where it is usually unveiled in September alongside the new autumn schedule.
Possible reasons what the new set is coinciding with
1. RTE News is been rebranded to mark Nuacht RTE relocating to TG4 in Galway (up to 30 people are be relocated)
2. The possibility it to coincide with RTE's new Breakfast programmme- Make the set bigger i.e a soft area. It had been reported in the media back in April 08; Irish independent that RTE were hiring extra camera personnel to work morning shifts from 7am, a shift in RTE newsroom work practices! But would this programme see the light of day with the current financial contraints facing RTE and.
3. Give the RTE News set a more international feel to it i.e revert back to using primary colours and dare i say it use of more LCD/Plasma screens to help be part of the core schedule of the RTE International channel.
4. These recessionary times are going to see RTE delve into its archives and return one of it's news set from the 1980s to help get us into the mood!!
On a side note, I wonder what is going to happen to Robert Shortt when he returns from Washington, what position will he return to??
And, will the laptops survive the relaunch or will it be a desk incorporated job!?
So with RTE News getting a new look in January 09 it has been brough
forward by six months, where it is usually unveiled in September alongside the new autumn schedule.
Possible reasons what the new set is coinciding with
1. RTE News is been rebranded to mark Nuacht RTE relocating to TG4 in Galway (up to 30 people are be relocated)
2. The possibility it to coincide with RTE's new Breakfast programmme- Make the set bigger i.e a soft area. It had been reported in the media back in April 08; Irish independent that RTE were hiring extra camera personnel to work morning shifts from 7am, a shift in RTE newsroom work practices! But would this programme see the light of day with the current financial contraints facing RTE and.
3. Give the RTE News set a more international feel to it i.e revert back to using primary colours and dare i say it use of more LCD/Plasma screens to help be part of the core schedule of the RTE International channel.
4. These recessionary times are going to see RTE delve into its archives and return one of it's news set from the 1980s to help get us into the mood!!
On a side note, I wonder what is going to happen to Robert Shortt when he returns from Washington, what position will he return to??
And, will the laptops survive the relaunch or will it be a desk incorporated job!?
None of these, RTÉ International is not happening any time soon thanks to the credit crunch. As for Breakfast News, I'll believe it when I see, RTÉ have announced it so many times since the mid-1990s and have never actually managed to put a programme on air.
Nope - as far as I can tell the studio change is happening solely because RTÉ finally managed to figure out how awful chocolate brown is a colour for a news service. Hopefully the next studio will be something more remeniscent of their late 1990s/early 2000s efforts.
RT
Well this is all most unexpected, but also most welcome.
I didn't think anybody expected this change in light of the fairly hefty investment that was made in the current presentation scheme, including an LED-illuminated cyclorama and new LED lighting grids. And it really has to be said: the latter cannot be underestimated in the transformation effected. Newsreader lighting ever since has been thoroughly consistent and beautifully subtle. Finally an international standard in RTÉ; though notably, only once human influence has been taken out of the equation
The coffee scheme has its obvious faults, but the detailing was generally quite good. Practically, the set held up as well to the last broadcast as the first day it was installed, and was always consistent (aside from those desk mics constantly walking out from under the glass in typical substance-over-style RTÉ fashion). The cyclorama for what it was worth always looked vibrant, with the light well distributed and the colours potent. The adaptability for The Week in Politics was effortless, and that's a difficult task to make a set multi-task whilst compromising neither ensemble.
However the picture windows never quite worked, the celtic-like swirls in the cyclorama an oddity, and the completely blank canvas-like backdrop remarkably boring. Similarly the desk design was very predictable (if the walnut finish smart) and the generally cramped environment, well, cramped. The titles are without question the cringe-inducing element that will unfairly taint this package for all eternity - we must remember to cut the rest some slack!
And overall, it has to be noted that the set did look quite polished, certainly relative to say Scandinavian television, where sets are equally small, but MDF-like units make things look cheap and amateurish. The current scheme blended into a coherent whole very well.
I suspect the plasterboard wall mentioned earlier is an indication of (finally!) an expansion into adjacent offices. Such walling is typically used in retail and office construction to shield sensitive areas from more robust works, so hopefully we may see an enlarged Studio 3. Other than that, I'd like to see smart primary colours, saturated illuminated backdrops where featured, and potentially a screen backdrop, but not used in an crass copy-cat way. The astons should be crisp crisp crisp in the context of the rubbish we've been dealt for the past six years, and ideally slightly animated, with say, a glowing line. I'd still prefer newsreaders to remain seated other than News on Two.
The only reason I can think of RTÉ being spurred into action like this so early on, aside from the increasingly sickly chocolatey appearance, is the ever-increasing competition from TV3, whose profile in news and current affairs has grown substantially over the past year.
Regarding the temporary setup, it's interesting that automated cameras are being used. This is however not uncommon, with about half the cameras on Prime Time already automated, The temp cyclorama looks woeful, but excusable enough. I suspect the saturation of the lower parts stems from intense rear lighting and a degree of deliberate over-exposure on camera.
I didn't think anybody expected this change in light of the fairly hefty investment that was made in the current presentation scheme, including an LED-illuminated cyclorama and new LED lighting grids. And it really has to be said: the latter cannot be underestimated in the transformation effected. Newsreader lighting ever since has been thoroughly consistent and beautifully subtle. Finally an international standard in RTÉ; though notably, only once human influence has been taken out of the equation
The coffee scheme has its obvious faults, but the detailing was generally quite good. Practically, the set held up as well to the last broadcast as the first day it was installed, and was always consistent (aside from those desk mics constantly walking out from under the glass in typical substance-over-style RTÉ fashion). The cyclorama for what it was worth always looked vibrant, with the light well distributed and the colours potent. The adaptability for The Week in Politics was effortless, and that's a difficult task to make a set multi-task whilst compromising neither ensemble.
However the picture windows never quite worked, the celtic-like swirls in the cyclorama an oddity, and the completely blank canvas-like backdrop remarkably boring. Similarly the desk design was very predictable (if the walnut finish smart) and the generally cramped environment, well, cramped. The titles are without question the cringe-inducing element that will unfairly taint this package for all eternity - we must remember to cut the rest some slack!
And overall, it has to be noted that the set did look quite polished, certainly relative to say Scandinavian television, where sets are equally small, but MDF-like units make things look cheap and amateurish. The current scheme blended into a coherent whole very well.
I suspect the plasterboard wall mentioned earlier is an indication of (finally!) an expansion into adjacent offices. Such walling is typically used in retail and office construction to shield sensitive areas from more robust works, so hopefully we may see an enlarged Studio 3. Other than that, I'd like to see smart primary colours, saturated illuminated backdrops where featured, and potentially a screen backdrop, but not used in an crass copy-cat way. The astons should be crisp crisp crisp in the context of the rubbish we've been dealt for the past six years, and ideally slightly animated, with say, a glowing line. I'd still prefer newsreaders to remain seated other than News on Two.
The only reason I can think of RTÉ being spurred into action like this so early on, aside from the increasingly sickly chocolatey appearance, is the ever-increasing competition from TV3, whose profile in news and current affairs has grown substantially over the past year.
Regarding the temporary setup, it's interesting that automated cameras are being used. This is however not uncommon, with about half the cameras on Prime Time already automated, The temp cyclorama looks woeful, but excusable enough. I suspect the saturation of the lower parts stems from intense rear lighting and a degree of deliberate over-exposure on camera.
RT
Probably, but bizarre nonetheless.
Interesting to note just how unflattering the temporary news set lighting is. Eileen Dunne has aged at least ten years under the new grids and looks remarkably tired to boot. Anne's usual porcelain-like face also shows signs of strain, while her neck looks a good decade older.
Not that I'm being critical - just rather obvious observations. Clearly the lighting is of a higher level, casting deeper shadows, and not sufficiently diffused.
Interesting to note just how unflattering the temporary news set lighting is. Eileen Dunne has aged at least ten years under the new grids and looks remarkably tired to boot. Anne's usual porcelain-like face also shows signs of strain, while her neck looks a good decade older.
Not that I'm being critical - just rather obvious observations. Clearly the lighting is of a higher level, casting deeper shadows, and not sufficiently diffused.
RT
Well I’m surprised the big news hasn’t hit here yet. The Oirish Mail on Sunday are reporting today that RTÉ are spending €5 million in a complete revamp of the Newsroom. Work began on December the 19th, with the temporary set hosted in the Seoige studio (possibly Studio 2).
The scheme was planned and budgeted for “a long time ago”. The revamped Studio 3 will be a whopping 75% larger, with the new set modelled on the Sky News “space-age” design. “It will feature tracking cameras which will give an overview of the newsroom’s team of journalists and allow presenters to deleiver the news standing up or walking around.” “The new set will feature a camera positioned 7ft 9in off the studio floor that can sweep in a wide arc to give a panorama of the newsroom.” “The set will incorporate a Sky News-style ‘backwall’ screen onto which images will be projected. In addition, a new control room ‘will look like something out of Star Trek’.” A rolling ticker-tape and redesign of graphics and titles is also included.
So there we are! - finally a subsantial investment in News production. Unfortunately the whole tone of the above article - quelle surprise - is of lavish over-expenditure, an act of asthetic folly rather than the reality of worthwhile investment in an entire facility. One suspects this will be the tone of all media coverage of it from hereonin given the current economic climate.
I can feel the cringe factor creeping in already in anticipation of it being a cheap knock-off of Sky News (which in any event is hardly a desirable model to follow regardless). If it is made sufficiently different, however, we could end up with a highly sophisticated mid-size news operation, the envy of many broadcasters. And it's the perfect time to do it: broadcast equipment has never been so affordable, refined and technologically advanced. All of this investment should see the Newsroom through the next twenty years.
Presumably the whole operation shall be shifted 180 degrees with its back to the newsroom proper, with a glass dividing wall? The only thing is the main corridor of the first floor of the Television Centre divides the two... All very exciting anyway
The scheme was planned and budgeted for “a long time ago”. The revamped Studio 3 will be a whopping 75% larger, with the new set modelled on the Sky News “space-age” design. “It will feature tracking cameras which will give an overview of the newsroom’s team of journalists and allow presenters to deleiver the news standing up or walking around.” “The new set will feature a camera positioned 7ft 9in off the studio floor that can sweep in a wide arc to give a panorama of the newsroom.” “The set will incorporate a Sky News-style ‘backwall’ screen onto which images will be projected. In addition, a new control room ‘will look like something out of Star Trek’.” A rolling ticker-tape and redesign of graphics and titles is also included.
So there we are! - finally a subsantial investment in News production. Unfortunately the whole tone of the above article - quelle surprise - is of lavish over-expenditure, an act of asthetic folly rather than the reality of worthwhile investment in an entire facility. One suspects this will be the tone of all media coverage of it from hereonin given the current economic climate.
I can feel the cringe factor creeping in already in anticipation of it being a cheap knock-off of Sky News (which in any event is hardly a desirable model to follow regardless). If it is made sufficiently different, however, we could end up with a highly sophisticated mid-size news operation, the envy of many broadcasters. And it's the perfect time to do it: broadcast equipment has never been so affordable, refined and technologically advanced. All of this investment should see the Newsroom through the next twenty years.
Presumably the whole operation shall be shifted 180 degrees with its back to the newsroom proper, with a glass dividing wall? The only thing is the main corridor of the first floor of the Television Centre divides the two... All very exciting anyway