News at Ten studio recreation - Updated

Apologies for the absence of mock, but I'm having trouble with these so-called "minor amendments" - namely the backdrop. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve so I'm fairly positive everything will turn out just fine.



Not sure what you mean; I did manage (last month) to recreate the ITV News 1999 set, for the *third* time. I think I've got it pretty much spot on compared with the other (awful IMO) versions I did. Might try to upload those as well soon...

I think he means for you to redo this mock but with current ITV News branding and colours.

Exactly. Thanks, pal.

It's been painstaking and troublesome, but I've finally managed to complete the studio recreation. I'm still not entirely pleased with it; some aspects haven't really turned out as I expected they would - the tiled background, for instance.

Oh well, here goes:

http://i44.tinypic.com/10igyah.png

http://i39.tinypic.com/mo3t.png

http://i42.tinypic.com/vgl7vd.png

http://i39.tinypic.com/vi01mw.png

A (somewhat quickly made) video showing the studio:

[media:6e97d6acdc]http://up.metropol247.co.uk/1235156836_928199341.mov[/media:6e97d6acdc]

And finally... (see what I did there? ...ahem) Sir Trev himself, superimposed onto the set:

http://i41.tinypic.com/14wsg8l.png

A reminder of the original studio itself:

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/news/itvnews/images/late/newsatten_last_1999b.jpg

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/news/itvnews/images/late/newsatten_last_1999d.jpg
Captures courtesy of TV Ark

Please do tell me what you think and let me know if there's any improvements to be made.

Spot on! Excellent work there!

Don't think this recreation can be faulted at all. Excellent work.

Fantastic! I really love the wide shots in particular. It's that accurate that it's difficult to tell which is real and which is fake!

I'd say the issues with the tiles on the back wall are more due to them being too in focus and the shadows on the real set being much more pronounced. The rest of it however, desk in particular, are excellent.

Indeed - I don't know why but I could never reconcile that problem. That's the best I can do at the moment unfortunately.

I really appreciate all the approving comments, all - much obliged.

Your background is quite stripy, whereas the original is more gradiated and smooth.

Something like this might be better (with the countries on, etc.):

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/bilkyasko/bgexampl.png

It would have to be tileable, of course.

Terrific work. Really impressive.

I'm no expert, but i know what i like and I like that very much.