Louise Minchin is making a lot of references this morning to how much bigger that Olympic Breakfast set is (upon returning to the usual studio, for example, she remarked how everything seemed to have "shrunk"). Whilst it's indisputable - and obvious that the usual studio is tiny (as evidenced in the contrast with the studio they had in London pre-2012), how much space does Breakfast actually need? The sofa and a perch for the Business presenter, along with a small performance area, is all that the programme requires.
Not that I'm suggesting that the current set couldn't do with some tweaking after all these years.
Louise Minchin is making a lot of references this morning to how much bigger that Olympic Breakfast set is (upon returning to the usual studio, for example, she remarked how everything seemed to have "shrunk"). Whilst it's indisputable - and obvious that the usual studio is tiny (as evidenced in the contrast with the studio they had in London pre-2012), how much space does Breakfast actually need? The sofa and a perch for the Business presenter, along with a small performance area, is all that the programme requires.
Not that I'm suggesting that the current set couldn't do with some tweaking after all these years.
I don't think this really is debatable - there's considerable difference in height apart from anything, and I don't think the desk is nearly as close to the glass partitions in the Sport studio compared to the sofa and screens in the Breakfast studio. Not to mention that the studio will feel bigger because it's part of a newsroom, separated from the desks only by space and glass - I'd bet studio E doesn't feel as small as studio C to the staff actually inside it precisely for that reason. They do a good job of making the Breakfast/NWT studio seem larger than it really is.
A question for one of our 'insiders', perhaps - how does the size of the Breakfast/NWT studio compare to N6 during the BARCO era at TVC?
Remember that the size of the visible studio space to you at home isn't totally what studio size is all about. Proper space for the cameras to get a suitable distance back from presenters without outrageously wide angle lenses makes a big difference to the way it looks on screen. Grid height is important in order to get decent throw angles and distance to your presenters for your lighting. A low ceiling can make wide shots appear to have acres of black at the top full of lights.
Incidentally, wasn't that sport studio space originally going to be the breakfast studio in Salford anyway, but sunrise and security concerns led to them choosing the studio space they ended up in?
