As far as I know News 24 also run with Gain-up, however the studio is as far as I know a proper studio, so perhaps uses better lighting, which will help picture quality. World news originates from 'Stage 5' in at TVC and opened in the late 1980's. News 24's studio opened in the mid to late 1990's.
Oh BTW when Graham Norton was made (from London Weekend's Studio 2) some years ago the Ikegami cameras were run with gain-up at +3db becasue the producer prefered the picture.
Nope - BBC News 24 came from, and still comes from Stage V, whereas world only moved into Stage V proper when N24 vacated and went to their own little bit in another newsroom. The picture on early N24 was pretty much good.
Most viewfinders I've used are set to letterbox with "safe" bars to the left and right. You can usually set the vertical hold to squish the picture to your liking, or keep it anamorphic 16:9.
With widescreen switchable cameras the viewfinder is a 4:3 glass, but te display changes depending on which setting it's on. The 'safe' markings that appear on the viewfinder are configurable, the ones I use show the limits of a 14:9 and 4:3 picture.
The use of LCD monitors mounted on camera pedestals is becoming increasingly common now. As Inspector Sands says, Graham Norton seems to have been one of the first to use them, but lots of studio prod programmes use them now. Sure even RTÉ's The Late Late Show have them mounted on one of two of the autocue peds!
It's strange that LCD technology has been used for ages in autocue setups in the form of the monitor that displays the rolling text, but was never adapted for use as a display monitor for presenters until quite recently. Perhaps it was the expense.
Nope - BBC News 24 came from, and still comes from Stage V, whereas world only moved into Stage V proper when N24 vacated and went to their own little bit in another newsroom. The picture on early N24 was pretty much good.
I thought News24 was in Stage VI along with the domestic news studio? Which was why that time Stage VI's fire alarm went off just before the One O'Clock News BBC1 and News24 were able to take BBC World's output.
Nope - BBC News 24 came from, and still comes from Stage V, whereas world only moved into Stage V proper when N24 vacated and went to their own little bit in another newsroom. The picture on early N24 was pretty much good.
I thought News24 was in Stage VI along with the domestic news studio? Which was why that time Stage VI's fire alarm went off just before the One O'Clock News BBC1 and News24 were able to take BBC World's output.
News 24 is in Stage 6 along with the domestic news studio and the main news centre. BBC World's newsroom and studio is in Stage 5. This is why the World studio was the only one news could use following the Taxi Bomb which went off ourside Stage 6 a few years ago. Also of course, World has a presentation department which deals with the transmission of the channel and can sustain the network even if a news studio isn't immediately available. Whereas News 24 goes straight to air from the studio gallery and if they have to be evacuated, all they can do is put a long tape on and hop it doesn't run out before they make alternative arangements.
On a lot of shopping channels including bid tv, they use autocue to pipe an output feed to the camera. So essentialy the presenter can see themselves talking to the camera. Take some getting used to I expect.
That's how they manage to point at and interact with the graphics on the screen.
The cameras on Graham Nortons Channel 4 programmes had both an autocue and a studio output. The latter was provided by a small flat screen (PC type) monitor on top of the camera
And on Sky News they seem to have the same LCD screens bolted on to the top of all of their Studio Cameras.
The use of LCD monitors mounted on camera pedestals is becoming increasingly common now. As Inspector Sands says, Graham Norton seems to have been one of the first to use them, but lots of studio prod programmes use them now. Sure even RTÉ's The Late Late Show have them mounted on one of two of the autocue peds!
It's strange that LCD technology has been used for ages in autocue setups in the form of the monitor that displays the rolling text, but was never adapted for use as a display monitor for presenters until quite recently. Perhaps it was the expense.
Is this small screen used for the same purpose then? So they can see when they're back on screen?
Is this small screen used for the same purpose then? So they can see when they're back on screen?
It depends, it could be useful on a news channel to show an outside source - for example a press conference that's due to start - so the presenter can have a bit of an idea about what's happening and when it's about to start
Nope - BBC News 24 came from, and still comes from Stage V, whereas world only moved into Stage V proper when N24 vacated and went to their own little bit in another newsroom. The picture on early N24 was pretty much good.
News24 is entirely located in Stage VI. The Studio is in the centre with the gallery behind and to the left. The on air newsroom is directly behind the presenters and the preparation area is to the right of the main set.
This floor also houses the Radio 5 On Air Newsroom and the two Radio 5 studios.
The Main National news teams are located on a different floor in Stage VI as is the gallery of N6. The N6 studio is in Stage V. They share the floor with the main Newsgathering areas, Radio News, Breakfast Offices and Radio Five's preparation areas. This floor also contains the Radio studio used for the Radio Four News and a number or small workshops used by Radio.
The other floor in Stage VI contains the Today/WatO/PM/TWT studio and offices as well as the offices for Newsnight.
BBC World Newsroom is in Stage V, with the main Newsroom directly behind the set and the Gallery in Vision behind the presenter. BBC World have a preparation area in Stage VI.
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Is this small screen used for the same purpose then? So they can see when they're back on screen?
It depends, it could be useful on a news channel to show an outside source - for example a press conference that's due to start - so the presenter can have a bit of an idea about what's happening and when it's about to start
The presenter usually have a number of floor monitors which can be switched to different feeds. They use these to monitor the output, so they can see when they are in vision as well as monitoring outside sources so they can see what is happening at a press conferance before they throw to it.
In the good old days of course there'd be a camerman behind each one.
I was just thinking that the other day.. I remember watching Coast to Coast (former news programme for the South/East) in the early days and the cameramen - wearing headphones - wheeling the cameras back as the credits rolled at the end. The studio seemed to look huge.
Well TVS had decent studios in Southampton and Maidstone for their local news operations - and they were a high quality studio show. In modern ITV terms the studios WERE huge... Compare them to the tin sheds at Whiteley - which are too small even to house projector backdrops.
Staff at Meridian have been told not to walk too 'heavy footed' behind the camera's once set up, why - because the floor shakes - strange but very true!!
Yes, its all about running telly on a shoestring. Why pay for big studios when you can pay peanuts and delight in the crap that ITV now supply!!