I don't want to sound like some pyscho from the rota discussion threads, but Alex was replaced by a London weather presenter with Julie presenting on Mon and Friday. Julie has disappeared and Jim Bacon's Weather Quest forecasters are being used - thus a much superior forecast.
If I recall, Peter Gibbs did one of the Look East forecasts recently?
I don't want to sound like some pyscho from the rota discussion threads, but Alex was replaced by a London weather presenter with Julie presenting on Mon and Friday. Julie has disappeared and Jim Bacon's Weather Quest forecasters are being used - thus a much superior forecast.
If I recall, Peter Gibbs did one of the Look East forecasts recently?
Where the Gibbs started his television career!
I think Peter Gibbs worked for the Norwich Met office, thus forecasted on Look East.
For anyone interested Cambridge were making the most of their studio last night for the 6.30pm edition. In place of the usual big deal was a coffee table sized desk with a tv behind it and a couple chairs either side. Presumably some of the bits were borrowed from the Sunday Politics.
The rest of the news came via where I assume down-the-line interviews from Cambridge are normally done. From a tweet I received I suspect the reason for not just seeing up a camera in the newsroom as they've done previously was all the half-eaten food everywhere.
That's a surprise as it's not an especially dated set compared to some of the other regional ones. Perhaps something to do with making the studio/set more versatile for shows like the Sunday Politics?
I don't want to sound like some pyscho from the rota discussion threads, but Alex was replaced by a London weather presenter with Julie presenting on Mon and Friday. Julie has disappeared and Jim Bacon's Weather Quest forecasters are being used - thus a much superior forecast.
If I recall, Peter Gibbs did one of the Look East forecasts recently?
Where the Gibbs started his television career!
I think Peter Gibbs worked for the Norwich Met office, thus forecasted on Look East.
Yes - in the early 90s the Look East forecasters worked at the Norwich Met Office. They would fax (!) over their weather maps to the newsroom, the graphics team would build them, and then the forecaster would come over to the BBC, check them, and then go up to the studio to do the forecast. That was the era of Pete Gibbs, Ivor Moores, Graham Parker and, briefly, Amanda Gooding (?)
I have to wonder how far off we are from it being viable (financially) for the "window" in these studios to be a green panel which has the appropriate view keyed in, with different pictures being added for the different sub opts?
I have to wonder how far off we are from it being viable (financially) for the "window" in these studios to be a green panel which has the appropriate view keyed in, with different pictures being added for the different sub opts?
Technically it would be pretty complex to implement - particularly if you wanted to be able to move the cameras on-shot - as you'd have to implement motion tracking (unless you went with static shots and some DVE-ery). You'd need to delegate at least a second ME bank to do a simultaneous mix for the 'other' window - and not try to do anything clever with your cameras up-stream on the desk. And you'd need to a bit of opt re-engineering. Non-trivial.
Then you have to ask yourself is it the right thing to do - should it look like the Norwich presenters aren't in Norwich when they are? All it takes is a studio interviewee to say 'as I drove here though the terrible traffic in Norwich city centre' and you are in a bit of a pickle...
In many cases generic and non regional backgrounds would be better, technically and editorially.
However pretending that the programme is a) live and b) tens of miles away from where the studio is seems to be editorially acceptable, though, so I guess keying in a more local background is no more dodgy than a studio in Leeds with a view of the Humber Bridge
As mentioned in the tweet above the work at the Cambridge studio over the weekend was to install a new, much bigger screen - it's now as tall as the backdrop/red section seen in the photo above.
As mentioned in the tweet above the work at the Cambridge studio over the weekend was to install a new, much bigger screen - it's now as tall as the backdrop/red section seen in the photo above.
Sounds like the screen perhaps is a similar size to Norwich now.