The programme has its strengths....but its production looks amateurish at times. It often feels like a TV programme being made by people with a radio background. That comic sans looks atrocious.
I have to say that the Victoria Derbyshire programme is the most painful news programme to watch that I've ever seen. You wonder if they're trying to do too much with it. Whilst it has some similarities with the old ITV News Channel programme, Live With Alistair Stewart, I just get the feeling that they're trying to hard to make it 'news lite' where Live With Alistair Stewart was more balanced.
I rarely get to see VD, but it's pretty good so far this morning. The only issue I have is that there must be a microphone close to a laptop, as we keep hearing keys being tapped and mouse clicks. Not a major issue, but a little amateur all the same.
I rarely get to see VD, but it's pretty good so far this morning. The only issue I have is that there must be a microphone close to a laptop, as we keep hearing keys being tapped and mouse clicks. Not a major issue, but a little amateur all the same.
The same issue seems to occur on Radio 4's Today programme. I don't know if they've tried to reduce the issue. I don't know if changing presenters has made it more noticeable, studio design or keyboard design but I'd have thought it a common radio and TV problem that doesn't appear everywhere.
You can get special keyboard and mice that are billed as 'silent' which a much quieter click than their normal counterparts - these are often used in radio so you can't hear them being used on-air.
Just watched Newswatch and many people are frustrated about the Victoria Derbyshire programme being shown on NC when it's already shown on BBC 2 and there not being enough rolling news between 9 and 11 with some people converting to Sky News.
Just watched Newswatch and many people are frustrated about the Victoria Derbyshire programme being shown on NC when it's already shown on BBC 2 and there not being enough rolling news between 9 and 11 with some people converting to Sky News.
Being discussed in the NC General Discussion thread.
You can get special keyboard and mice that are billed as 'silent' which a much quieter click than their normal counterparts - these are often used in radio so you can't hear them being used on-air.
Indeed, anyone who has been to a university library with a quiet/silent floor may have noticed a different set of keyboards in use. They're whisper quiet if you use them properly, but you can still make a racket with heavy typing.
Out of curiosity is VD ran on Mosart automation? From what I've seen and heard it seems like the type of show that would need flexibility and someone pushing the buttons on the vision mixer and audio board.
Indeed, anyone who has been to a university library with a quiet/silent floor may have noticed a different set of keyboards in use. They're whisper quiet if you use them properly, but you can still make a racket with heavy typing.
Don't worry, with the present rate of decline of laptops and PCs, in another year or so everyone will be using a tablet, so just the sound of skin on glass !
Out of curiosity is VD ran on Mosart automation? From what I've seen and heard it seems like the type of show that would need flexibility and someone pushing the buttons on the vision mixer and audio board.
Yes - Mosart is in use, but I don't know if it is working as it does on Andrew Marr and Newsnight (i.e. manual vision and sound mixing with Mosart handling server playout, graphics and possibly screen routing) or whether it is more like BBC World News in that studio (which uses Mosart to drive the vision mixer too) Important to remember that you can still cut cameras and OSs manually within Mosart - you just don't press buttons on the vision mixer control surface, but instead on a bash-box, qwerty keyboard or touch screen. The advantage of using Mosart for this is that your cuts can be tied to Viz changes.
The only studio / gallery in the main NBH operation not to use Mosart, is the non-News studio used by The One Show, Sunday Morning Live, Rip Off Britain live etc. The non-English language services (Arabic, Persian and a few others) are still, I think using older gallery installs (SD and with server playout systems but manually driven vision and sound mixers)