14-02-2023, 11:50 PM
Always love a trip to Central Square - the empty thoroughfare of news is my favourite presentation areas - just so colourful, so visually interesting and such a great use of all that space. Really suits the news well - I particularly love how unusually they have to angle the cameras to get the LED screens (that are not at all pointlessly weirdly shaped) in shot. And I can't not mention the Ikea desk with a BBC News globe sellotaped to the front on an oversized rostrum in an otherwise empty studio - really becoming of the flagship news programmes of a national broadcaster in 2023.
I'm not sure, though, why they crane the cameras so far back in the wideshot just to get a slither of that (yawn) newsroom/office space - so unnecessary. I for one love the bold decision to get more black wall in shot than any news set since the 1950s. That aside, it's just such a great space for demonstrating they are in Cardiff - really descript, just screams 'this could only be in Wales'. Honestly, if was ITV and Sky, I'd be taking notes - for your next set, just stick a massive LED screen in an empty warehouse - if it's good enough for the BBC...
I'm not sure, though, why they crane the cameras so far back in the wideshot just to get a slither of that (yawn) newsroom/office space - so unnecessary. I for one love the bold decision to get more black wall in shot than any news set since the 1950s. That aside, it's just such a great space for demonstrating they are in Cardiff - really descript, just screams 'this could only be in Wales'. Honestly, if was ITV and Sky, I'd be taking notes - for your next set, just stick a massive LED screen in an empty warehouse - if it's good enough for the BBC...