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(July 2001)

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NG
noggin Founding member
kingrikk posted:
noggin posted:
Yep - N6 is not exactly on the huge side with the UK Today and Nationals set both permanently installed. (And the projectors take up a lot of room)

(Edited by noggin at 2:08 pm on July 14, 2001)

What are the projectors? (Now that might be a stupid question...)


The projectors are the 'big tellies' that the news presenter sits in front of.

In fact they are expensive video projectors, which take a live feed (right) or 5 mins delayed (left) of a camera suspended in the newsroom. The left hand projector is also reversed horizontally, so it projects a mirror image of the right hand projector. (Incidentally both of these projectors and the camera are 4:3, not widescreen!)

There is a third projector, sometimes called the bigscreen, which is used for down-the-line interviews, or correspondent stand-ups.

A plasma screen is also available for the sport presenter to use for DTLs. (It also features in the opening and closing sequence of HardTalk - it displays the blue Hardtalk logo)
KI
kingrikk
noggin posted:
kingrikk posted:
noggin posted:
Yep - N6 is not exactly on the huge side with the UK Today and Nationals set both permanently installed. (And the projectors take up a lot of room)

(Edited by noggin at 2:08 pm on July 14, 2001)

What are the projectors? (Now that might be a stupid question...)


The projectors are the 'big tellies' that the news presenter sits in front of.  

In fact they are expensive video projectors,

That's projected! I thought it was just chromakey with the new virtual studio silvery bluescreen stuff.
NG
noggin Founding member
Nope - good old projection technology!

They have gone wrong on-air on one or two occasions in the past I believe...
SN
Steve Naylor
Yeah, one occasion when they went wrong was when the bottom half of the screen went green through one report - the next time we saw Huw (it was on the Six) he was doing the wide shot (the no sidebar shot they do to say goodbye) with that side of the projector screen (maybe that one was okay as 5 min delay would have kept it fine).

The next shot you saw of Huw was a very close shot with just the ivory corner to the right of the right hand screen (as you look at the front of the studio).

Seemed to be sorted pretty quickly though!

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