The photo of Jon shows the best evidence as to how the logo will animate: the shapes will orbit the globe, looks interesting.
On the desk it does not look as though they have laptops but the sort of screen that you get on the more recent iMacs and in the background of the national studio. I wish we could see what was behind the desk.
Edit
: Upon closer inspection I can see how wrong I am. That is a laptop, the black piece behind the screen is a mic, silly me.
The new newsroom has some features found the in the old/present one, ie the screens at the end of the desk and seemingly the curvature to the whole room. Looks great though, I am very excited!
To me it actually looks very similar to the current set.
Don't get me wrong, I like it - the screen looks great (a bit like the new one on five news), as does the desk.
BUT... It's obviously the same area, the shape of the set and desk are the same, and the red background and garage door with the screens through it are still there (look over Jon's left shoulder and it looks exactly the same as the current set - down to the join in the glass).
I doubt very much that what you can see on the left is a walkway to another area. They've only got the same space to work in as they had before so why a new area? It's probably just the main set and second set like it is now.
To me it looks like they've kept the design of the old set, and just fixed the things which were wrong with it - the cream colour, the fake backdrop, the plasmas, the desk.
It looks a bit retro 60s to me. Do the presenters sit in those egg-chairs?! It could grow on me maybe but I would rather have been blown away. Anyway we'll see.
Maybe I'll put together some images later so we can see how it could animate based on that image and the information I have.
Hmm, channel is called BBC News 24, new logo makes you read it as '24 (BBC News)'. Very feable. And looking at the shot of Jon Sopel in the set, the logo looks worse. A white set, with a plasma which will display a red-on-black logo? Why? It looks like an alarm clock stuck in a fridge.
Looking at the set design, not too bad at all, except that the designer has not allowed space to fit desktop computers in, necessitating the use of laptops. I hate laptops on a permanent news set, they look so tacky and unprofessional (especially if they are going to have external mice plugged in as in the national news). A set which can't conceal a desktop computer is a bad set.
That said, I still don't see why the presenters have to use a computer. OK, it provides them with information which they will need during the course of their job, but surely they will not want to access anything which can't be anticipated by the crew (or shouted for during reports). Why can they not have the computer's display up on a projection screen off set for them to look at, with someone else operating it? Why, if they must use one on set, can they not have cordless keyboards and mice with a computer off set with the display on a projection screen? Having any type of computer visible on set imo looks bad. Keyboards can be got away with, but having laptops (especially when they'll get some sleek modern black/silver job and then connect a bog standard cream mouse to it for the presenter to use) looks downright awful.
All in all, the revamp is going to be a bit varied, vast improvements in some areas, big disappointments in others. And knowing the humdrum mixtures of old and new which BBC News has gone for these days, I'm half expecting the same old title sequence to remain in use (it is on the main national news bulletins, with only an assurance that it will be replaced 'eventually').
I love the way that rear projection screen has no border- it's like those framless spectacles. I think the red/white look will dominate judging by the backing of the screen.
I think the reason that there isn't a border is that they aren't rear projected, they are front projected (it was said earlier that the projectors are attached to the ceiling). If this is so it will prevent the screens getting screen burn.
Well as everybody seems to be judging the relaunch on a fraction of the set that they can see from a tiny photo, I may as well chip in.
Doesn't look that different from the national to me, and as has been said, why is the logo red on black, when the set is all white and red. I am of course willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until we see it on screen.
Oh and yes, I don't like laptops on news either. They look ridiculous on Midlands Today on that coffee table. The Sky News black keyboards with screen into the desk are much sexier affairs.
I love the way that rear projection screen has no border- it's like those framless spectacles. I think the red/white look will dominate judging by the backing of the screen.
I think the reason that there isn't a border is that they aren't rear projected, they are front projected (it was said earlier that the projectors are attached to the ceiling). If this is so it will prevent the screens getting screen burn.
That also means that the presenters won't be able to stand in front of them, because they'll obscure the picture - so there must be another "standing-up" presenting area, presumably with a bigger screen.
