As the news has just started I've noticed that the picture isn't on the red stripe screen on the studio wall as it increasingly isn't. Is this because the image creating device is broken or they want to get rid of it? Tonight (Sunday) it could be for the Sports sidebar, how do they fit it in if anyone knows - the gap doesn't look big enough!
Should it go or should it be kept?
GM
nodnirG kraM
I think it adds interest to that wall which is otherwise very boring - nothing else goes on on that wall, so the stripe is very good for breaking the blandness.
Well. I like it. I think it's there just to add something to that Back wall. It's not on cause it's just not. It does come on later. I think it's there just to have a bit of graphicness in the studio.
Keep It BEEB. It's GOOD
RW
RW
Get rid of it! It's almost as bad as the purple box!
Noggin I'm sure will correct me if I'm wrong, but it was put there after 11th September. The idea was to have a PBU there every night to highlight what the main story is about, which is why you saw a big US flag with bombers & Bush etc.
If they don't want a PBU that particular night, you'll just see the red backing
(Edited by Techy Peep at 10:19 pm on Nov. 25, 2001)
GM
nodnirG kraM
Would that be similar to the screens used in the 1993 virtual studio - ie run the top headline every day?
Yeah, but not electronically generated.
Personally I loved working with the virtual set, so versatile!
The guy who developed the computer software which drove everything is a genious, and in my humble opinion is wasted in his present job
Incidentally, every time we ran the titles during the Virtual Era we chuckled... the titles were mastered on 1st April and crossed our fingers that the computer had triggered the DVE which generated the studio within the titles.
Very rarely did they go wrong, but when they did it was spectacular!
(Edited by Techy Peep at 10:37 pm on Nov. 25, 2001)
RW
RW
Never really seen the point in it - when the newsreader told you what the main headline is at the start of the bulletin, and an image appears in the sidebar, why does it need to be plastered all over the studio wall as well?
JA
Jamez
I loved the old virtual newsroom. It was very BBC-ish and commanded huge authority. I remember one a couple of occasions that the wide-angled camera used on the opening shot (where all the set and graphics were inserted by computer) sometimes the presenter would 'slide' into shot! very funny!
(music was fantastic too! - the current news music should have been based on the musical notes used between 1993-1999)
IMO I think the red along that wall looks rather good - but it looked better when it had George Bush and the American flag blended into the colours.
I think they should keep it until the war is over in Afghanistan, and until the World Trade Center rubble has been cleared (which I think will be about April).
How I do miss the twin towers - but they way certain BBC programmes blend the wrecked World Trade Center into the colours is effective, as tragic as September 11th was.
