Some strange happenings on the ITV News Channel. It appears they (on DTT anyway) are in widescreen with a 14:9 crop out. Perhaps they're preparing for widescreen. Trying to select 4:3 cut out doesn't affect it. Probably a mishap.
Yeah, all my ITV News Channel output is >>squished<< - even the adverts. It's a pain to watch. I don't get black bars on "Normal", and it doesn't crop the edges on "Centre Cutout". Strange.
Ooh I did like that just then, only keying the stage bit rather than the whole floor!
What with all this virtual stuff and the presenter standing up so the big screen is 100% behind them, with all these new innovations they don't need to rebrand just yet!
I think its ruddy irritating. Sit down people please, whats wrong with you???? News should be presented from behind a desk, not on a sofa or in a sea of virtual reality.
I think its ruddy irritating. Sit down people please, whats wrong with you???? News should be presented from behind a desk, not on a sofa or in a sea of virtual reality.
I think it looks great. Don't really understand the problem. They start the show standing up for the main stories and interviews at the big screen, and return to the desk after the break. Why does it have to be one or the other ?
This may come as a shock, but they do stand up sometimes on the BBC as well.
To make it better they should also change the newsroom backdrop as well every now and then, if they did that, why would they need to revamp the studio!
I actually think the ITV News studio is better and more versitile than the current BBC News one
I know they do it on the BBC - and its just as irritating there!
Its not as bad if they hide desk (if a little tacky), but when there is an empty chair with or without a co-presenter it looks a little naff.
I'm just one of these people that doens't like innovation on news bulletins - I much more prefered the old BBC Breakfast News than the sofa they have now for example.
I do like the new style presentation News at Ten has used since it returned - in front of the screen really works, and I agree the clock-face key in worked alot better tonight. Also liked the blue rotating globes which were used on tonights bulletins.
I think these experiments do give quite a few clues to how a new look ITV News would work - my idea for a studio would be using a studio similar to the virtual graphics studio used throughout the war, with the face of Big Ben making up the floor. A glass desk would then be placed in the centre of it, with one large big screen in the centre and two smaller big screens at either side.
My ITN mole has given me some exciting information. The ITV news changes in question will occur in early August. I am sworn to secrecy so I cannot say any more but I know that there are a lot of ITN fans on this forum. The changes will be implemented first on the ITV NC as a sort of mock run to the real thing.
It's Terry Lloyds funeral this Lunchtime, so I imagine some faces won't appear on ITV today. Nick Owen did do the Lunchtime News, and it would not surprise me if Mary Nightingale is back for tonight's Evening News.
Is it now the start of silly season (even though it's early)? All the usual presenters usually start to bugger off for Summer, so maybe the end of the war is enough excuse for them to go now, hence one presenter on Evening News, new presenters like Foster and (in a way) Stewart.
Then the usuals all come back for a big revamp in, umm, August.
