Personally, I don´t understand how Sky News Centre which has been looking (to me at least) futuristic over the past years, can suddenly look "dated" as you say and a new studio which has mainly beige wood and yellow ochre greenish sofas (70´s style) inside, can suddenly look fresh and modern?
It's because its blank.
Blank looks fresh next to anything. They have done it where I work, all the walls painted white, within days they are dirty.
KB broke free from the box today. Caught a glimpse of her interviewing someone on the yellow sofas seen previously on twitter.
It was a prerecorded segment though, so could have been done earlier because of time schedule of the guest, but perhaps they will be using this option at times.
The studio is really growing on me it - it looked very warm during Sunrise, with the screen behind the presenters. And again, I love the use of the set when Kay is on air - the wide shot at the TOTH and the backdrop from 5pm.
I feel like I saw it said somewhere (on Twitter perhaps) that Sky News were going to have a studio in the "baby shard" building, presumably for business coverage. Is that still the case?
I feel like I saw it said somewhere (on Twitter perhaps) that Sky News were going to have a studio in the "baby shard" building, presumably for business coverage. Is that still the case?
Finally watched a little bit of Sunrise. It really does look cramped round the table with SJM, the paper review guests and the sports presenter all round the small desk and that's before Jonathan Samuels is in the studio.
Sunrise is definitely my favourite when it comes to using the studio. I like that they use the big screen as the main background for the presenters and the atrium more as an incidental backdrop for guests. I think everything works absolutely fine in that context.
As has previously been pointed out, though, the stand-up interviews in front of the big screen look a bit daft. This morning Sarah-Jane was interviewing a guest in front of massive images of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the dark-suited guest was almost camouflaged against the image of a dark-suited Trump.