15-02-2023, 12:13 AM
(14-02-2023, 11:50 PM)DTV Wrote: 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 assume all of the above is in a sarcastic tone...
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 do wonder why they don't use the sport studio for the Six/Ten/Newsnight. You still get to see the screens that were used today, but in an actual studio rather than an empty and spacious corridor. (PS The (incorrect) BBC Sport logo in the desk can be changed/removed)