[ViridianFan]

Here's an example of the touch screen to the left being used
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I’m going to sound really negative, did presenting on a touch screen add anything to that piece if she had done it on the cat walk or one of the old screens. If it had been outside source style then yeah you can kind of justify it. This was someone moving one slide at a time through a PowerPoint effectively. Id say it hindered the as she had to pause and turn to the screen to press the button.

Came across this on twitter:
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He mentions bolder branding but just being able to see the poor PowerPoint style graphics every where doesn’t make them bolder it highlights just how poor it looks. Whilst I’m glad they mostly left E be, I think it’s a shame they removed the two screens either side of the desk. The tower doesn’t look right and the touch screen is too small. It now leaves those two areas looking very empty and the set unbalanced.

We’ve also gone from having a similar style across all sets and most regions we now are starting to get groups of sets. You’ve got studio b with lots of straight lines, very white, huge warehouse but at the same time very cramped. You’ve got C old style. D which I think looks the best and E which is now a strange hybrid. It’s a shame they didn’t give E a bigger revamp and gone along the breakfast style studio. Then you’ve got all regional studios which tech wise is great but have lost the warmth. Again a version of the breakfast studio would have looked good.

Then the branding is a total mess and it’s severely weakening the brand. You’ve got the butchered 16 yr old titles. The super short cut is awful. The regions titles work. We’ve even seen finally updated versions for the nations. Then you go to the new channel and it’s totally different and not in a good way. Whilst lovely to hear the old music but it doesn’t fit with the graphics and the graphics are truly awful. There is no other way to describe them. If they’d have been mocks posted in a forum they’d have been ripped to shreds. The names are just poor knock offs of the old names.

I watch TDLR news and watching thwir intro it feels like someone at the bbc has seen it and thought that attracts a younger audience lets make our output look like that.

I know it’s really negative but it’s so sad to watch. BBC sports has managed simple but well made intros which stand out and are eye catching and looks good around the sports department. When you then go back to bbc news it’s a bit like have Poundland next to the apple store.