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.
I think there was a second studio with the darker coloured set which was used for World Service News. Maybe that's the one you are thinking of.
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.
I think there was a second studio with the darker coloured set which was used for World Service News. Maybe that's the one you are thinking of.
No I meant the actual nine o'clock news/ late weekend bulletins. Were they from a different studio to the daytime bulletins?
No, as far as I know, the Nine O'Clock News used the same set as the One/Six/Weekend bulletins. They changed the panels behind the presenter and changed the look of the virtual reality stuff so it was darker. They also changed the crest for the late bulletins (of course, this was VR as well).
No I meant the actual nine o'clock news/ late weekend bulletins. Were they from a different studio to the daytime bulletins?
No, as far as I know, the Nine O'Clock News used the same set as the One/Six/Weekend bulletins. They changed the panels behind the presenter and changed the look of the virtual reality stuff so it was darker. They also changed the crest for the late bulletins (of course, this was VR as well).
The crest was the same for all of the bulletins. Just for the nine it was viewed from a different angle.
Ah right, thanks. Just something that I've been wondering about for, er...... 13 years.
The darker panels used in the evening also looked more serious as well, which I never understood. Three of the panels had a section of the globe at night time, but all the daytime panels had white, cloud-like lines on them.
There was something about exactly how the virtual set worked on the BBC programme 'How do they do that' at least ten years ago. That showed someone changing the back panels over between the daytime and evening design, which I remember seeing quite clearly. Amazing how you can remember things like that from that long ago really.
I think the panels were like a roller blind mounted on its side. Don't know why I think that - possibly a vague recollection of the How Do They Do That episode mentioned above
I think the panels were like a roller blind mounted on its side. Don't know why I think that - possibly a vague recollection of the How Do They Do That episode mentioned above
Each bulletin used a different version of the (not at all) virtual graphic look - though Breakfast Time, the One, Six and daytime bulletins used the same set backings, whilst the Nine used a different set (with a real orange UK map backing) (*)
Business Breakfast (which used to be the first hour of morning news before Breakfast Time) used a different set, opposite to the main One/Six/Nine set, with a pinky backing. When Newsnight moved from one studio to another (in 1997 I think) - and went from analogue technology to digital technology in gallery terms - Breakfast Time moved out (and Working Lunch left the small virtual studio they previously occupied ) to join them.
The cut glass elements and the electronic picture insets were different between the bulletins - they were all pre-rendered, and played out from laser disc players (aka CRVs) tied to digital video effects devices (that allowed a full-frame camera shot to be shrunk down and moved in sync with the titles) so that a relatively small studio looked huge. However each programme had different "virtual" backdrops - though I think daytime and weekend bulletins shared the various One/Six/Nine versions.
When the national news moved to their current studio - before they went to the beige look - they had a cut-down version of the blue desk in one corner, and as the scene shifting was more difficult in the new location, I believe they totally CSOed in the Nine O'Clock inset AND backing - whereas previously the orange backing was real with only the inset keyed. (There were clever masks to allow the key to be forced over orange elements)
