BBC News Thread

Looks a bit fake to me, like they've taken a standard wide shot, shrunk it down a bit and used to computer graphics to fill in the rest of the space at the bottom and on the the sides.

I visited TVC and saw those sets. *If memory serves*, the One and the Nine (with the "fish fingers" titles) were in the same studio, with the desks opposite each other. Newsround perched on the edge of the Nine desk with a chromakey cloth and not much else.

The Six had its own studio, and the newsroom set (which at the time was only for daytime summaries and weekend news) was crammed right in the corner of the newsgathering area.

I think they were all permanently set.

Ta Gavin. Poor old Newsround!

http://thetvroom.com/images-bbc-one-news/news-93/bts-g.jpg

Also, I presume all these, and the 93-99 corporate sets, were all in the old bit of TVC, unlike N6 today.[/quote]
They were in N1 and N2 .. which are now called TC10 and TC11. Although the old N1 and N2 signs are still up in a couple of places.

As we're talking set changes, I seem to recall someone mentioning that part of the old 93-99 set was moved into N6 prior to the new look in 1999, did this happen? and what happenned to news bulletins whilst the 1999 look set was being installed in N6?

Also, I know World used to have an identical set to the BBC One News set, was this decommissioned the same time as BBC One moved to N6 or did this remain in N1/N2 for some time after?

That was the actual studio used during the virtual era? I thought that even the backdrop and desk were computer generated, and only the newsreaders were real.

It was a combination of real and cg. The panels behind the presenter were interchangable, and got darker for the evening bulletins. The over-the-shoulder graphics were generated using a clever technique that noggin (amongst others) can explain in detail.

Justin Webb was real?

All that you can see in that pic was real, but when it was seen on air the desk was 'extended' using CG so it looked even bigger!

I've always wondered exactly how the virtual studio worked. For the wide shot was there a fixed camera taking a shot of the real section of the desk, which was then shrunk into the virtual graphics, or did they have a movable camera that moved in time with the pan on the titles?

It was a still camera with a DVE.

The One O'Clock had a camera move/wipe combo though.

If the blue panels were replaced with darker ones for the evening bulletins, does that mean the evening bulletins came from that same studio. It's just that I thought two separate studios were used.