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The soft set at the Millbank studio is getting its first outing

https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1387320632271069186

Based purely on that image, I'm not sure 'soft' is quite the word I'd use. Hard to imagine those backgrounds making any shot – wide or close up – look particularly inviting, so close to the presenter and guest and with such garish, stark colours on screen? I assume they are screens, right?

They look so bright, relative to the physical set, you have to wonder if they're going to wash out the people.

House post_id=9519 time=1619631798 user_id=1266 Wrote:Based purely on that image, I'm not sure 'soft' is quite the word I'd use. Hard to imagine those backgrounds making any shot – wide or close up – look particularly inviting, so close to the presenter and guest and with such garish, stark colours on screen? I assume they are screens, right?

They look so bright, relative to the physical set, you have to wonder if they're going to wash out the people.

Soft is a generic tv term for “not at a desk”, in my experience.
Those screens do look hideously bright, though, so unless the lighting is bright to match it’s going to look odd.

With all the chat about GB News, I've often pondered whether a trick was missed not pushing LBC into TV. I presume doing so isn't a core part of Global's business, but to me the visual output almost feels like a "minimum viable product" to jump on the opinion-driven news bandwagon...

valley post_id=9575 time=1619645909 user_id=971 Wrote:

House post_id=9519 time=1619631798 user_id=1266 Wrote:Based purely on that image, I'm not sure 'soft' is quite the word I'd use. Hard to imagine those backgrounds making any shot – wide or close up – look particularly inviting, so close to the presenter and guest and with such garish, stark colours on screen? I assume they are screens, right?

They look so bright, relative to the physical set, you have to wonder if they're going to wash out the people.

Soft is a generic tv term for “not at a desk”, in my experience.
Those screens do look hideously bright, though, so unless the lighting is bright to match it’s going to look odd.

Sorry for not being clear - I was trying a play on ‘soft’ because it looked rather off-putting for a set intended to be more personal (interviews etc.).

Don’t screens often look more washed out in photos rather than overly bright? I don’t recall the last time I saw a photo of a set where the screens looked like that?

DAS post_id=9581 time=1619647673 user_id=748 Wrote:With all the chat about GB News, I've often pondered whether a trick was missed not pushing LBC into TV. I presume doing so isn't a core part of Global's business, but to me the visual output almost feels like a "minimum viable product" to jump on the opinion-driven news bandwagon...

A lot of LBC’s output is people calling in by phone, so unless you change the format to make people appear via Zoom (which wouldn’t be loved by a lot of their callers - people at work or on the road, people who weren’t expecting to be on air 10 mins earlier etc.), it would be rather visually boring for a lot of its output.

DAS post_id=9581 time=1619647673 user_id=748 Wrote:With all the chat about GB News, I've often pondered whether a trick was missed not pushing LBC into TV. I presume doing so isn't a core part of Global's business, but to me the visual output almost feels like a "minimum viable product" to jump on the opinion-driven news bandwagon...

Global closed down their TV channels a few years ago didn't they? I can't imagine they would go back to doing it on TV.

If they did do it then it would be as a feed on their website, though I imagine the presenters might not be so keen on having everything shown, the fad for studio webcams to watch presenters has long gone, presumably partly for that reason.

valley post_id=9575 time=1619645909 user_id=971 Wrote:Soft is a generic tv term for “not at a desk”, in my experience.

Reminds me of when a news programme I worked on got a new bit of studio ike that and I called it the 'soft set' The editor of the programme heard me and said 'now now we don't call it the soft set as the stories we use it for won't necessarily be soft'


That image looks partly virtual.

Incidently I think Iain Dale All Talk is a podcast rather tan primarily a radio programme

A wider view of the interview set at Millbank
https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1397601873042067456

House post_id=9622 time=1619680801 user_id=1266 Wrote:A lot of LBC’s output is people calling in by phone, so unless you change the format to make people appear via Zoom (which wouldn’t be loved by a lot of their callers - people at work or on the road, people who weren’t expecting to be on air 10 mins earlier etc.), it would be rather visually boring for a lot of its output.

I think having the listeners appear via Zoom would be very off putting, more so for the person calling in than for the viewer.

Londoner post_id=15032 time=1622064495 user_id=952 Wrote:A wider view of the interview set at Millbank
https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1397601873042067456

Panasonic AW-150 cameras. 20x optical Zoom, and native UHD. Fine (in this day and age) for 'proper' telly

on the topic of visual output radio, it appears hear BBC are using consumer camcorders for their video output?
https://twitter.com/petroctrelawny/statu...24516?s=21

Global did have Heart and Capital music video stations in the 2010s, they were very well done with proper segues, audio processing, the playlists resembled the actual stations (unlike the Bauer ones) - but they were only ever on DSAT. They were shut down a few years back.

joshuanesbit post_id=17035 time=1622969284 user_id=1556 Wrote:on the topic of visual output radio, it appears hear BBC are using consumer camcorders for their video output?
https://twitter.com/petroctrelawny/statu...24516?s=21

What a messy looking set up!

Very messy. The BBC really hasn't caught up with its commercial cousins on visual. You'd never see Global or Bauer putting out video with that wonderful cable management.

Global are quite clever with this sort of thing - they've got spare studios for both Heart and Capital which can become any brand with a mouse click, which changes over the lights, the screens, the works. This means they can record star interviews and similar in there.