Place your bets now: how long before someone presses the wrong button and we get Teletubbies in the background?
It's almost certain that it will happen at some point - so far we've seen they have N24, World and Sport Today's backdrops saved, plus they probably have some for a second set, such as Business Today, and the generic backdrop. They've got so many to choose from!!
The chromakey is awful, I would suggest their vision mixer check the selectivity and the clipping. I personally wouldn't let that go out!
The vision mixer isn't doing the clipping. It's done in Racks
Clipping isn't done in racks, thats cameras I'm refering to the clipping of the key, especially around the desk.
Believe me, in this case it is.
The vision mixer just has the pre keyed sources available on the vision mixing desk so can not do anything about the clipping. That is all preset by an engineer
Marcus, given that News 24 seems to have technical problems when the presenters are sitting at a desk, standing at a fake pseudo-Sky Newswall, in real studios or in virtual studios... how is the channel going to cope when the presenters have to walk around and look cool in entirely new surroundings?
I mean, in your view, Marcus, are there any situations in which News 24 might not have a potential technical disaster staring it in the face at least once a day?
The chromakey is awful, I would suggest their vision mixer check the selectivity and the clipping. I personally wouldn't let that go out!
The vision mixer isn't doing the clipping. It's done in Racks
Clipping isn't done in racks, thats cameras I'm refering to the clipping of the key, especially around the desk.
Believe me, in this case it is.
The vision mixer just has the pre keyed sources available on the vision mixing desk so can not do anything about the clipping. That is all preset by an engineer
Sorry Marcus, just had some additional information about this and it would seem you are right. Obviously things are done different in different studios. My apologies.
Marcus, given that News 24 seems to have technical problems when the presenters are sitting at a desk, standing at a fake pseudo-Sky Newswall, in real studios or in virtual studios... how is the channel going to cope when the presenters have to walk around and look cool in entirely new surroundings?
I mean, in your view, Marcus, are there any situations in which News 24 might not have a potential technical disaster staring it in the face at least once a day?
It's a good question. The directors are already vastly overloaded and doing the jobs of four people. It could look a complete mess. Depends how much resources they put into it.
When they do put extra effort into the channel it can pay off. Some of the BBC1 specials during the war were very well done. But then they did give the director time to prepare it and did put an extra person into the gallery.
Well Liz Pike looks a little ill, and Matthew looks a bit Micheal Jackson. To be honest, I think you'd have to be blind and stupid not to know its fake!
Shoddy work - but it probably won't mean much to the masses.
I did catch an interview with someone in the studio which was even stranger - it had a strange bodged looking thing, with half of the background being just a gradient they threw together, and a really short loop of someone walking in the background constantly...it was like Pacman!
Earlier, really thick black lines around people, desks, everything, and during the interview there was a peculiar shot of the presenter and the interviewee, which let you see the bottom of the CSO. Very strange indeed...
