NG
Nope - BBC News bulletins have had remotely operated cameras for a very long time indeed - in fact probably as long as the News has come from TVC (I am not sure if Alexandra Palace - where News was until 1969? - had remote cameras)
Breakfast and Newsnight come from a different studio and work with a combination of remote and manned cameras. A lot of News studios use remote cameras, as News seldom needs cameras to move around the studio floor on shot.
There is a classic clip of a remote camera going mad whilst Julia Somerville was presenting on the old Nine O'Clock news. (The version which had the flying golden lozenges centred on London and forming the 9 O Clock News text)
And the camera in the roof (Cam 6 - Cam 7 is the newsroom camera) is totally locked off and mounted between the lights in the lighting grid I'm afraid. It would not be possible (and anyway would cost a lot of money) to fit a rail/track system for this - currently it would track THROUGH lamps if it moved! Also the shot it offers is as wide as it can go without shooting off the set. If movement were incorporated the shot would have to be tightened, and would then not cut/mix so well with other studio shots!
noggin
Founding member
MP posted:
My Goodness, I never would have thought it of the BBC. Were they always operated by one person or was it another Dyke 'Cut'? The camera moves suggested as well as the crane movement seem absolutely out of the question given the current situation. The 7th camera on the ceiling is obviously the one which provides the fade in view at the beginning and the fade out view at the end. Is there no way they could incorporate a crane movement accompanied by the BBC News claps - say before the promo or at the beginning and end?
Nope - BBC News bulletins have had remotely operated cameras for a very long time indeed - in fact probably as long as the News has come from TVC (I am not sure if Alexandra Palace - where News was until 1969? - had remote cameras)
Breakfast and Newsnight come from a different studio and work with a combination of remote and manned cameras. A lot of News studios use remote cameras, as News seldom needs cameras to move around the studio floor on shot.
There is a classic clip of a remote camera going mad whilst Julia Somerville was presenting on the old Nine O'Clock news. (The version which had the flying golden lozenges centred on London and forming the 9 O Clock News text)
And the camera in the roof (Cam 6 - Cam 7 is the newsroom camera) is totally locked off and mounted between the lights in the lighting grid I'm afraid. It would not be possible (and anyway would cost a lot of money) to fit a rail/track system for this - currently it would track THROUGH lamps if it moved! Also the shot it offers is as wide as it can go without shooting off the set. If movement were incorporated the shot would have to be tightened, and would then not cut/mix so well with other studio shots!
SN
Steve Naylor
Can you tell us what each of the cameras are as we see them - you've told us about cam 6 and 7 so I assume there are five more!