A lot of TV shows have started to up the quality of home set ups. This Morning for example had Gok Wan doing a cooking segment and it was a huge improvement visually compared to last week.
Well, that is an improvement.
Wonder if ITV lent out some new kit to do this, because the ramp up in quailty is huge?
Light balance is better. The tripod holding the camera is much better placed - he now covers up much of the background window, rather than it taking up half of the left hand side of the shot leading to unstable lighting levels, and hardly any 'blocky' pictures so the wi-fi signal is far faster - infact, that's almost fibre speed.
He tweeted something to the effect that there are two remote controlled cameras which get delivered to his doorstep, with a satellite vehicle outside. His wife (Click's Lara Lewington) was acting as floor manager/location director.
The HIGNFY thing was bespoke wasn’t it? There was a tweet with a photo of Steph rehearsing with other people in the chairs and some company was name-checked.
HIGNFY use remote controlled specially installed PTZ cameras.
When Steph hosted the first show in the series, they used, with arrangement and agreement with Channel 4, the same kit used for The Steph Show.
I have been watching a lot of the US late night shows now airing versions from the hosts homes and it is so wonderful to see their homes, vast mansions where being self isolated means they can live in one part of their complex and never meet another member of their family very easily.
Bill Maher now presents his Real Time show from his "back yard" which to us in the UK would mean a very small plot of garden maybe, but to Bill, judging by the backdrop I have seen, his back yard looks like the size of a small town park here in England.
Stephen Colbert has said he has a satellite link truck based in his front drive, beaming the signal back to the CBS headquarters in Manhattan, something which Conan O'Brien mocked and made fun of when the two appeared on their shows together.
Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show looks very nice from his mansion, very old style look to his home, and of course vast in size.
The one exception is John Oliver, who refuses to show any of his New York home, and instead all we see in the background is a white covered backdrop.
The US shows have done very well, no doubt the bigger budgets has ensured that they can easily now provide a decent link up to the respective network centers in New York
A lot of TV shows have started to up the quality of home set ups. This Morning for example had Gok Wan doing a cooking segment and it was a huge improvement visually compared to last week.