I like it as it's a bit of everything and I think people are rude to say I am only likeing so I can say its crap on facebook I love it
Urgh - really, no one cares.
It looks way too dark - not just the background, the whole studio seems to be lacking illumination. The steps are the brightest element - shurely shome mishtake?
Will try to catch it this week and see if it grows on me.
And the other thing I noticed - no mention of ITV1 in bumper ads or during the show.
Yep - STV and UTV really don't have much to worry about in terms of ITV-branding being forced upon them. There's more in any ITV News programme than in the entire 3h25m (promos aside which were like that before).
EDIT: Just got to regional travel... is that always in 4:3 seeing it's not my region?
In London? Yeah, I'm not sure if it is because TrafficLink can't do 16:9 or if it is just because the TFL cameras are 4:3. Since ITV Regional news went widescreen they've put it in a variety of frames, I think this is one of their better attempts though.
I've seen Trafficlink's setup for the ITV bulletins when I went there for a job interview a few years ago. Not sure what type of camera it was, but it had a green neon circle around the lens, and the "green screen" wasn't green at all, but grey and looked rather like those sun shades that are held up by film crews.
Also, I'm not a fan of the
'5 a day' feature
. I just don't think viewers really care about those kind of gimmicks. I also think it's a real shame they kept the premium-rate competitions.
Thought it was a bit too RI:SE reminiscent for me.
I've seen Trafficlink's setup for the ITV bulletins when I went there for a job interview a few years ago. Not sure what type of camera it was, but it had a green neon circle around the lens, and the "green screen" wasn't green at all, but grey and looked rather like those sun shades that are held up by film crews.
One of those that uses tiny beads on the grey 'cloth' to reflect the green LED lights, it does explain why the quality isn't great. Sky do/did use that technique for their weather CSO which I've always found a bit fuzzy.
I thought the launch of Daybreak was quite pleasing overall. Watching in HD, the studio & graphics worked well, although I'm not convinced that the Boxed daybreak logo over the Jib shot really works.
Keeping in mind a few very minor teething problems on the first day (such as that very obvious reflection during the first bulletin!), I thought it went rather well.
My only gripe really was the quality (picture-wise) of certain VTs, particularly the one with Sue Jameson... looked either SD or from a Z1 type camera.
I haven't watched in full (just the first fifteen or so minutes), but my first impressions are that it's much, much better to what was on offer previously. It still feels very GMTV, but I am glad that a significant amount of fluff has been replaced by a little bit more newsy content.
However I don't like that ugly "In 10 minutes... sport with Dan" strap - I hope that's not a permanent fixture. I'm not keen on that handheld camera nonsense either, that should have been thrown out with GMTV (along with the choice of competition questions!). The tables look a bit on the dodgy side too, but they definitely look better on screen than in all the pictures released last week, as does the set itself.
I think the only HD VT in the entire show was the Prince of Wales one - which was also shot 25p rather than 50i.
Everything else looked to be upconverted SD.
Also - AIUI the windows don't have the Rosco polariser system - as when tested it interacted with the 60s tempered glass and patterned (a bit like car windscreens used to) and couldn't be used. Instead an electrically dimmable coating has been put on them (that actually darkens the windows - and doesn't require anything on-camera) but that too does odd things, particularly off-axis.
In the wideshot the grid doesn't appear to have much lighting in it - and there seem to be a lot of white-light LED?
