19-01-2024, 11:08 AM
(19-01-2024, 10:51 AM)Stuart Wrote: Providing me with explanatory graphics or DTL interviews on a screen behind them adds value to me in some of their reports.
I agree that this is one weakness of this set – it looks like there are just two relatively small vertical monitors. Having a big horizontal monitor or video wall off to the side would be nice to have as an option to do visual standups. And that's also why I think this set would be perfect for a midday rolling news block with a single anchor where there isn't a ton of that kind of stuff anyway.
Maybe a newsroom backdrop is just another office space to some people. Still, I think it's a nice visual reminder to communicate to viewers that the program they're watching is part of a larger news operation. There's an entire crew of people off-camera working hard to gather the news. Media literacy and trust in media is so low that I don't think we can take that for granted. I think there are sadly enough people out there who will cynically call the news "fake" if they think the content is "fake" and see only one presenter on air with a boring "fake" backdrop behind them. In their view, what makes that any different from someone doing the same thing on YouTube in their basement?