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(November 2013)

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oflahertya
BBC News Fix posted:
The first shot isn't a recreation. There is actually a camera in the ceiling of Studio C. (Studio E does have one too but behind the presenters)

Another view of the camera in a red studio setting https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/474233637580595203


Studio E also has a Camera over by the door and you can see the whole studio with it (Seen it on the tour and I think, thats one of the other shots they can see in the gallery)
NG
noggin Founding member
oflahertya posted:
BBC News Fix posted:
The first shot isn't a recreation. There is actually a camera in the ceiling of Studio C. (Studio E does have one too but behind the presenters)

Another view of the camera in a red studio setting https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/474233637580595203


Studio E also has a Camera over by the door and you can see the whole studio with it (Seen it on the tour and I think, thats one of the other shots they can see in the gallery)


Though that may be a non-broadcast "snoop" camera that is used to allow directors to see the studio floor (and positions of cameras, floor manager, guests etc.) rather than a camera that would be used on-air.
TM
tmorgan96
That snoop camera is noticable in this blooper (at around 2:10 - although the fun begins at 1:20).

WO
Worzel
Studio E snoop camera:

http://wirelesswaffle.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/photo0813.jpg
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Is that overhead camera there for shots of newspapers etc?
NG
noggin Founding member
tmorgan96 posted:
That snoop camera is noticable in this blooper (at around 2:10 - although the fun begins at 1:20).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvT_yH57-O8


I think that's an overhead broadcast camera, not a snoop.

Snoop cameras are basically CCTV cameras that aren't designed to be cut to air, and they wouldn't normally available be on the vision mixer, so couldn't be cut to air. They are purely there to be routed to the monitor stack.

They are there purely to provide additional information to the gallery crew - showing where people and cameras are in the studio (so they don't drive cameras into them) etc.
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Steve in Pudsey
There was, apparently, a 9 O'Clock News back in the N1/2 era where all of the studio cameras died. Martyn Lewis initially continued out of vision with a caption on-screen, later the snoop camera was patched into the vision mixer, naturally a very strange angle and no autocue on the front of it.
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Markymark
Steve in Pudsey posted:
There was, apparently, a 9 O'Clock News back in the N1/2 era where all of the studio cameras died. Martyn Lewis initially continued out of vision with a caption on-screen, later the snoop camera was patched into the vision mixer, naturally a very strange angle and no autocue on the front of it.


I remember that evening, it wasn't a snoop camera, it was the wide shot camera (what in stadium coverage would be called the beauty shot) that gave a wide view from highish up in the studio, routinely used for the opening closing and shots.

1 min 52 here (the camera shot, not the breakdown)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S14ksjBvvP4
Last edited by Markymark on 8 June 2014 2:26pm
MD
MDQ1
Is it just me or does the ticker font look ever so slightly different? And is the 'LIVE' font different now too?
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chris
MDQ1 posted:
Is it just me or does the ticker font look ever so slightly different? And is the 'LIVE' font different now too?


Can't see any difference this morning.

The BBC Sport centre looks a bit different though. Difficult to tell though as the last bulletin just had a fixed, tight shot of the presenter.
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gregmc
Yes the refreshed BBC Sport Centre is on air from today. Should feel much brighter, lots of new lights and a lick of paint turns the dark back walls into a much brighter colour washed wall.
RO
rob Founding member
Just one image for now, as the 9.30am sports bulletin was cut short due to breaking news:

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