11-02-2023, 05:19 AM
(10-02-2023, 11:51 AM)oscillon Wrote:Thanks for that. I'd forgotten that they redid that studio and that it's the current location for The Lead. Honestly, it's so hard to tell all the different CNN sets apart these days because they're all pretty unremarkable-borderline-terrible. That Captiol set as it was before was much more interesting with the real window, and wasn't there a newsroom part to it too? It's sad that it's now just a boring studio full of monitors like everything else and with the real window hidden.(10-02-2023, 06:05 AM)Charles Wrote: I hope we see less of that awful Washington studio. The weird virtual thing they do during The Lead looks awful. You can visibly see some pixelation and moiré on the stylized CNN logo in one of the fake 'wall' backdrops.
Actually, since 2018 The Lead and Inside Politics are in yet another Washington studio called Studio D, with its 3 vertical screens and a curved LED pillar. It is totally separate from A/B and previously (mid-2000s) had windows with a live view of the Capitol.
Here is a nice article from NewsCastStudio when it re-opened in its current configuration:
www.newscaststudio.com
Seriously, I was watching the Lead today, and the texture on the faux 'wall' backdrop behind Sarah Matthews was moiréing. I can't believe somebody went ahead and said, 'yeah, this looks good':
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(10-02-2023, 11:51 AM)oscillon Wrote: Has there ever been a time when it was, like, shown on air (and not in the press photos that we did not have much of after the last couple of refurbishments)? I wonder what would the scenario be for that to happen. The one that comes to mind is when Jake, who was in the B studio with the Lead prior to 2018, threw it over to Wolf in neighboring A. Or was it during a very wide shot of TSR pundits discussion when they still had a round table?I remember seeing it occasionally on wide shots. I remember there was also a fourth wall on the Studio A side that had frosted glass with some monitors behind it in sort of a control room pattern. You'd maybe see it if Wolf had a panel or if a correspondent was presenting something on that smaller plasma in the corner. That looked nice.