Special pres and studio for Lorraine yesterday as her High Street Fashion Awards ceremony took place. Her usual seating area was removed and replaced by an 'eye' shaped stage area and the judges sat on a white 'bench' thing which looked very uncomfortable, just in front of the usual space. The catwalk was off to the right of the pres area in a sort of elongated S shape, which led into pink curtains, in front of which was a 'Lorraine' logo lit up. Representatives from each store and website were seated around the studio at tables along with Nadia Swahala, Nicola Wheeler, Dan Wooton and Amy Childs.
Special titles were a cut version of the promo that has been airing, the logo was a glitzy, shiny version of the normal one. Surprised the long walk-on track wasn't used as the camera had a long way to move before getting close to Lorraine.
News update at 9:00, as usual.
Was a good show, although the clapping audience sounded a bit bad, as if it was being played out on speakers in the studio, then transmitted to us, it was a bit loud at times and covered parts of speech and music.
The show closed with a VT of the days events and cut silently to the new glitzy end board.
All in all it was a good show, if Lorraine can cover something as well as she did on her own show, I'm sure she can bring it to Daybreak.
'ITV National Weather sponsored by Topps Tiles' is now played out before the weather instead of the Belvita Cereal bars, I assume it started this week.
Wow. Watching today as I tend to every 3 months or so, what a bloody mess the whole thing is now. The original set was a bit cold but at least consistent, now they seem to have no palette to work with; it's almost as if they just pull the first bit of random set they can and plonk it in place. What's with the previous ITV1 logo-themed news area? Why has somebody badly applied a 'News' sticker to the laptop?
Say what you like about GMTV - at least their on-screen look was still 'together' to their last day on air!
The last time I watched it was in January (to record the, erm, 'refresh') and I remember thinking the same. You can imagine a set designer of increasing insanity desperately trying to mask all the failings with more and more orange.
And the humongously out of place red sofa and blinds combo is still just hilarious. In fact, I'm surprised the set isn't mentioned more in this thread. I guess you grow accustomed/fond of it when you endure it daily, huh?
CF
CatsFast101
I've just caught literally the final seconds of Daybreak, Alex Bresfrod did the weather, I thought he wasn't joining? Was he just cover?
CF
CatsFast101
I've just caught literally the final seconds of Daybreak, Alex Bresfrod did the weather, I thought he wasn't joining? Was he just cover?
Wow. Watching today as I tend to every 3 months or so, what a bloody mess the whole thing is now. The original set was a bit cold but at least consistent, now they seem to have no palette to work with; it's almost as if they just pull the first bit of random set they can and plonk it in place. What's with the previous ITV1 logo-themed news area? Why has somebody badly applied a 'News' sticker to the laptop?
Say what you like about GMTV - at least their on-screen look was still 'together' to their last day on air!
The original set was fine. All they needed to do was change the sofa colour to red and redo the lighting to orange or yellow, not a humongous red sofa that blocks the window (bearing in mind when they started to use that monstrosity, the view was still a focal point) and using every 'warm' colour on the spectrum. Throw in a few plants to soften it and they would've been fine. They've messed about with the set and look of the show far too much and making it much worse than it originally was, missing the glaringly obvious reason for the poor reception of the show- content!
What I don't understand is why they persist using the coloured panel screens and that extra wooden wall now it gets light around 4.30am. They took it down last year and opened the set out, it looked a lot better because it meant they could reduce the yellow and orange lighting, yet they haven't done the same this year. The wall will be coming down permanently in 2 months anyway.
Lots more moving camera shots today, the TOTH used to be a zoom to the head shot, now the camera pans round to the start of the zoom. Into and out of opts/breaks are much like GMTV in 2009/2010, the video sting fades out early, leaving the audio sting to play as the camera pans to the presenters. Introducing guests is much like that, camera panning from presenters to reveal guest. The news only has the wide shot with the multiscreen when a link is up or a VT is rolling, when it is not on it's the tight shot usually used at the end of news. No panning for the news yet, maybe later.