[Bluecortina]

Am the the only one who is riveted with this sort of discussion? Just me then.

Also, given the shots of the studio being a green screen environ. Has it always been a green screen since 2004 or has a blue screen been used.

I was never a fan of green screen as opposed to blue. It always seemed to be blue then for some reason green seemed to become flavour of the month. In analogue terms blue gives the largest signal for the keying equipment to work with (chromakey etc works on colour-difference signals not the actual colour itself) and green pretty much gives the smallest so I never really quite knew why the change. Of course today’s cameras are more sensitive overall and digital signal processing techniques have transformed what can be done.

But of course nothing is perfect, we were watching NaT the other night with Julie wearing a pale pink jacket and as I pointed out to my wife - I’m afraid the green spill has caught them out again with a distinct green tinge down the right hand side of the jacket. Very subtle but it was there and probably only me at home noticed! Lens flare etc is the devil of a job to control in small studios with lots of uniform background colour, I often sense Tom Bradby’s face colour is unnaturally pink rather than ‘Coco the clown’ brown as as a result of excessive flare correction. Needs must I suppose.