When you say it's real, I guess it's worth clarifying that you mean it's not virtual/CSO. It's not a real newsroom, just a picture of a fake one with some clever lighting to animate the screens a bit.
Correct - I should have made that more clear - apologies.
When you say it's real, I guess it's worth clarifying that you mean it's not virtual/CSO. It's not a real newsroom, just a picture of a fake one with some clever lighting to animate the screens a bit.
Correct - I should have made that more clear - apologies.
My guess is that the main background is a simple photo blow up and lightbox arrangement, but there are small lights (LED?) behind where the monitors in the picture are which change colour to give the impression of animating the monitor.
My guess is that the main background is a simple photo blow up and lightbox arrangement, but there are small lights (LED?) behind where the monitors in the picture are which change colour to give the impression of animating the monitor.
I think that the Leeds studio 'gives away the secrets' a lot more than the Hull one does. Not a bad guess though Steve. The Hull set went in first of course, and had mods done to it very early one which were then adopted by the design company for the Leeds set.
Re. your 'small lights' observation, have you spotted the little mistake on the hull set yet? You have to look closely and its not in every shotl! there's a challenge for you! lol
This 'breaking news' bit is a bit cringeworthy on Look North
Who's idea was it to put a member of the public directly on air!
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Just watched the interview with Dave Spikey and in the background, I could see a computer monitor and it had the BBC Look North logo on it - is it definitely not a real newsroom?
Just watched the interview with Dave Spikey and in the background, I could see a computer monitor and it had the BBC Look North logo on it - is it definitely not a real newsroom?
Absolutely not. It's designed for Look North, hence the Look North logo on the screen. Some of the other regions have screens with other BBC News programmes on such as Breakfast.
Just watched the interview with Dave Spikey and in the background, I could see a computer monitor and it had the BBC Look North logo on it - is it definitely not a real newsroom?
Absolutely not. It's designed for Look North, hence the Look North logo on the screen. Some of the other regions have screens with other BBC News programmes on such as Breakfast.
So the backdrop is real - they are real screens and computers etc?
Firstly, the perspective is out because it's not designed to be looked at from this angle (for more than a few seconds), and if you look above the backdrop, you can see the wall behind the set.
nah, I still don't know exactly how it's done - although quite intregued how the lightboxes are being lit so evenly, but with the special bits built in, and how easy they are to change, since my experiences with lightboxes seem to involve an extraordinary amount of swearing, nipped fingertips and having to redo them ten times to get them to line up properly and straight (although I'm not as bad as one person I work with who put them all in back to front one day).
Just guessing here, but are the "monitor lights" are fixed to the back of a solid print, and the lightbox is behind that?
nah, I still don't know exactly how it's done - although quite intregued how the lightboxes are being lit so evenly, but with the special bits built in, and how easy they are to change, since my experiences with lightboxes seem to involve an extraordinary amount of swearing, nipped fingertips and having to redo them ten times to get them to line up properly and straight (although I'm not as bad as one person I work with who put them all in back to front one day).
Just guessing here, but are the "monitor lights" are fixed to the back of a solid print, and the lightbox is behind that?
Nothing clever really. When you think about it, the graphic would look better if it wasn't evenly lit .
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