[interestednovice]

I have to say, I really did strongly prefer the shot of “presenter with screen next to them” and, despite it being the default for months now, I can’t warm to the new default shot at all. Everything is a bit too flat, a bit too zoomed-in, too generic with the washed-out fake newsroom background and nothing else on screen and simply boring.

The old angled shot gave a bit of interest, showed off the studio, allowed to more seamlessly transition into interviewing a guest and was more forgiving with the low-pitch backdrop screens as they were, literally, further away from the camera. The skyline backdrops looked so good too, they hid the limitations of the screens perfectly. It was all very clearly “as designed”, whereas the new shot never looks right. It’s like there is no depth to the studio, when in reality there is, and hiding the desk and almost everything except for the presenter’s head appears unnatural.