South West England & CI Thread

Oh, I quite agree. I was only talking about the internal fictional* logic of the concept. (*And presumably, obviously so to anyone).

Also, anyone familiar with the actual localities would realise that the backdrops shown don't make physical sense.

For example, the angle that the Clifton backdrop is shot from means that the ITV Bristol building would have to be on Clifton Down near the Observatory. In real life, the Observatory is the only building there, surrounded by expanses of grass and trees. And the ITV Bristol building is actually in a completely different area of the city.

Furthermore, in real life the bits of the Avon Gorge that are used on the two "side windows" are not actually perpendicular to the north side of the Clifton bridge in the way that the studio layout would have it. And because this believable-looking false construct looks like apparently opposing sides of the gorge are in each "side window", it therefore means that the studio would have to be floating in mid-air, high above the river Avon, in the middle of the gorge!

Similarly, the two "side windows" of the Tamar view show the west bank (e.g. Saltash) and east bank (e.g. St Budeaux) of the river, respectively, which would surely mean that the studio would have to be on a boat in the middle of the river!

I'm sure that most/all regions' 3-sided views are similarly artificial constructs.

Discovered recently that on the 1981 titles as featured on TV Ark...

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbc_southwest/news_1980s.html

...the theme music is actually composed and realised by Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the same Peter Howell who realised the 1980 version of the Doctor Who Theme.

Source: http://peter-howell.blogspot.co.uk/p/peter-howell-composed-and-performed.html

Something odd going on in Plymouth this morning with the Breakfast bulletins. This CSO set up isn't from the normal studio, and it doesn't look as though it was put together at the last minute. I don't even recognise the presenter.

http://i68.tinypic.com/2nh49xy.jpg

EDIT: I don't think it's CSO, I think she's sat in front of one of the plasma screens in the main studio.

Must be a new setup then - I don't think it looks last minute at all, however I liked the sofa setup.

I thought they'd had a camera refit too - that looks terrible (or is it a low quality cap?)

It's covered in horrible PAL footprint artefacts, could it be some sort of back up service from Bristol ?

I just looked on iPlayer (as the BBC One regions can be watched live now), and the actual image quality is as good as it usually is - the cap just isn't the highest quality. It does look like they're sat in-front of a screen in the studio - the background properly animates and looks fairly nice but the podium with the laptop is too high up and looks a bit awkward.

Weather is pretty awful down there with Storm Imogen, you might be on to something there.

Could this be a new go-cart in @BBCSpotlight livery? Maybe not fast enough to win any speed records. pic.twitter.com/aJOEvJQz52

— Kevin Heathorn (@KevinHeathorn) February 8, 2016

I like this, although I do agree the table needs to be lower or the presenter standing up.

I'm not sure why that's considered better than using the sofa or the desk! Since they're using the normal studio I can't see how it's cheaper either. Doesn't look very nice at all.

I confess, it's a low quality cap. I need to update my software.