20-01-2023, 12:31 AM
In the thread about the BBC An Là studio in Inverness, Stuart posted the following about the BBC Channel Islands news service...
"The CI sub-opt comes from a 'cupboard under the stairs' at BBC Radio Jersey. There is never any standing presentation, as they'd bang their heads on the ceiling. A proper regional 'minilith' would be wasted, although they could actually use someone's mobile phone in front of one of the cameras to make it look as if they had one.
They could develop some kind of NBH-B style set on the two walls which are visible, but the screens would be rather wasted in an environment with only 2 fixed camera shots. Frankly, I wonder what extraordinary efforts it took to get that two-part sofa into the cupboard."
...which got me thinking:
Doesn't the current St Helier studio have something like one-quarter (or whatever) of the cylindrical space containing a helical (a.k.a. "spiral") staircase encroaching into its footprint, with a curved glass window meaning that the actual staircase can be seen from inside the studio (albeit not in any of the camera angles currently used in the broadcast programme)?
Given that the Studio B NBH set contains a dummy helical staircase (to the faux "balcony"), it would be apt for any "B"-style set introduced in St Helier to somehow incorporate their real staircase into the on-air look of the programme. Fat chance of this happening though, I suspect.
"The CI sub-opt comes from a 'cupboard under the stairs' at BBC Radio Jersey. There is never any standing presentation, as they'd bang their heads on the ceiling. A proper regional 'minilith' would be wasted, although they could actually use someone's mobile phone in front of one of the cameras to make it look as if they had one.
They could develop some kind of NBH-B style set on the two walls which are visible, but the screens would be rather wasted in an environment with only 2 fixed camera shots. Frankly, I wonder what extraordinary efforts it took to get that two-part sofa into the cupboard."
...which got me thinking:
Doesn't the current St Helier studio have something like one-quarter (or whatever) of the cylindrical space containing a helical (a.k.a. "spiral") staircase encroaching into its footprint, with a curved glass window meaning that the actual staircase can be seen from inside the studio (albeit not in any of the camera angles currently used in the broadcast programme)?
Given that the Studio B NBH set contains a dummy helical staircase (to the faux "balcony"), it would be apt for any "B"-style set introduced in St Helier to somehow incorporate their real staircase into the on-air look of the programme. Fat chance of this happening though, I suspect.
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