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A former member
Not to mention sore emails.
As the web geek behind the ITV.com/regionalnews site, could I ask you not to send any more mail begging for passwords?
Right now the site is only available to MPs and ITV staff. If your name's not dahn, you're not comin' in. Sorry.
As the web geek behind the ITV.com/regionalnews site, could I ask you not to send any more mail begging for passwords?
Right now the site is only available to MPs and ITV staff. If your name's not dahn, you're not comin' in. Sorry.
BB
Just seen the 12:30 bulletin... the titles and music are great BUT the set... hmm not sure. I mean, the 'newswall' looks fake because it is fake, and because the set is so dependant on graphics (rather than 'real' design elements) and as (IMO) ITN has never been too hot on designing graphics for their reports, etc... the whole thing doesn't look that nice (a lot of it is just a rehash of the ITV's brteakbumpers animation with the moving 3D squares) - ESPECIALLY when just the newswall is in view...
NG
noggin
Founding member
Nice to see that the ITV1 Lunchtime bulletin is looking slicker than the News Channel.
However already I'm getting a bit bored with the "Wide and zoom in" beginning of each studio link. (Zooms are quite un-natural - our eyes can't do them - it is a pity there isn't more tracking and crabbing)
Nice to see that OBs appear as part of the wall when the presenter is stood up - so they don't dwarf the studio presenter.
Still there is a complete lack of depth to the main studio shots - maybe it is because the virtual backing is too sharp?
However already I'm getting a bit bored with the "Wide and zoom in" beginning of each studio link. (Zooms are quite un-natural - our eyes can't do them - it is a pity there isn't more tracking and crabbing)
Nice to see that OBs appear as part of the wall when the presenter is stood up - so they don't dwarf the studio presenter.
Still there is a complete lack of depth to the main studio shots - maybe it is because the virtual backing is too sharp?
IN
And I'm going to retract this now, because on the Lunchtime News their is some nice animating on/off for the astons. But for some reason these have been absent from the News Channel. And it isn't hard to see where they got the idea from.
I'd expect BBC ONE News to match the animating astons, if they get a TOG whenever the titles change.
intheknow posted:
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Doesn't seem to be anything special to say about the graphics either. No animation, bit too simple, nothing outstanding like the News 24 and Sky News graphics, and how they all slot together and integrate. Perhaps these may appear later, but looking at them this morning it doesn't look like it.
Doesn't seem to be anything special to say about the graphics either. No animation, bit too simple, nothing outstanding like the News 24 and Sky News graphics, and how they all slot together and integrate. Perhaps these may appear later, but looking at them this morning it doesn't look like it.
And I'm going to retract this now, because on the Lunchtime News their is some nice animating on/off for the astons. But for some reason these have been absent from the News Channel. And it isn't hard to see where they got the idea from.
I'd expect BBC ONE News to match the animating astons, if they get a TOG whenever the titles change.
OB
Lunchtime news on now, like the titles I think the music has lost its impact it still sounds dated compared to BBC News. Nice new studio if a little dark. But the regional titles really let the side down, they are appauling, 
I have only seen Meridians but they look older than the Meridian News titles of the past. 
New astons work very well although the Breaking News slug needs more visual impact.
7/10 so far...
I have only seen Meridians but they look older than the Meridian News titles of the past. New astons work very well although the Breaking News slug needs more visual impact.
7/10 so far...
CA
No, that's complete twaddle.
Sky News comes lives from a working, bustling newsroom, which makes the atmosphere better.
News 24 comes from a small enclosed area attached to a newsroom. There is no atmosphere in the News 24 studio, it is practically a vacuum.
But you surely agree that the background atmosphere on News 24 has improved since the re-launch. Prior to December 8th, I agree, it was a vacuum, but now I can quite easily hear phones ringing, and a general office noise.
I have to say, Rob, I have no particular desire to hear a phone ringing during the news.
Though there is a glass screen between the desk and the newsroom, Sky News comes live from there on a regular basis. News 24 remains entirely cut off from anything going on in the newsroom; I hardly even notice the people in there at most times.
The presenters on News 24 are so frosty that often there isn't even an atmosphere in the set itself... despite the News 24 relaunch, in my eyes it remains a poor effort. They just haven't got "it".
New look Lunchtime News is impressive, but poor Nick Owen seems lost in there. They are zipping through interviews so fast he looks quite intimidated. Very nice animations, though.
itsrobert posted:
c@t posted:
Moz posted:
Yep, News 24 is enclosed in a room - it's just that it's quite an important room...the newsroom! Both News 24 and Sky News come live from a working, bustling, newsroom which makes the atmosphere better.
No, that's complete twaddle.
Sky News comes lives from a working, bustling newsroom, which makes the atmosphere better.
News 24 comes from a small enclosed area attached to a newsroom. There is no atmosphere in the News 24 studio, it is practically a vacuum.
But you surely agree that the background atmosphere on News 24 has improved since the re-launch. Prior to December 8th, I agree, it was a vacuum, but now I can quite easily hear phones ringing, and a general office noise.
I have to say, Rob, I have no particular desire to hear a phone ringing during the news.
Though there is a glass screen between the desk and the newsroom, Sky News comes live from there on a regular basis. News 24 remains entirely cut off from anything going on in the newsroom; I hardly even notice the people in there at most times.
The presenters on News 24 are so frosty that often there isn't even an atmosphere in the set itself... despite the News 24 relaunch, in my eyes it remains a poor effort. They just haven't got "it".
New look Lunchtime News is impressive, but poor Nick Owen seems lost in there. They are zipping through interviews so fast he looks quite intimidated. Very nice animations, though.
BS
I am waiting to see how they do the Granada Lunchtime News.
The new CSO is much better than the original one, I am just a bit un-impressed by the new Granada News Logo, it looks dated. Apart from that everything else is fine.
on the box posted:
Lunchtime news on now, like the titles I think the music has lost its impact it still sounds dated compared to BBC News. Nice new studio if a little dark. But the regional titles really let the side down, they are appauling, I have only seen Meridians but they look older than the Meridian News titles of the past. New astons work very well although the Breaking News slug needs more visual impact.
7/10 so far...
I have only seen Meridians but they look older than the Meridian News titles of the past. New astons work very well although the Breaking News slug needs more visual impact.
7/10 so far...
I am waiting to see how they do the Granada Lunchtime News.
The new CSO is much better than the original one, I am just a bit un-impressed by the new Granada News Logo, it looks dated. Apart from that everything else is fine.
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A former member
The cameras are moving around too much, just to try and convince us that the background is real, despite the obvious giveaway of the chromakeying - which hasn't improved for 10 years...