Pre-Launch BBC News: Studio B Refit

[AaronLancs]

I'm quite surprised they still need physical camera tracks - I'd have thought nowadays cameras could just track from either marks on the floor or some kind of GPS system, or is it just a case that a track system is cheaper and perhaps more reliable?

First, your comment. I'd say that tracks are not "cheaper" per se but with the dreaded health and safety in mind one wrong move from a untracked camera - lead by GPS / track marks - and can you imagine the roasting the BBC would get in the press for whatever in along the lines of being malcontent or something like that anyway. At least with the cameras being tracked everyone knows where they are and what areas to walk in. Especially when a camera sequence gets triggered by the gallery.

Second, thinking on about this. I can't remember who did the original image but over in the Blue Place I saved someone's layout of Studio B - when we were all trying to figure out what went where - and wonder if the tracks would be in the marks in red give or take certain set obstacles on this quick mockup of an image.

Also if someone recognises the original image creator, please let me know then I can credit you. As your name is lost in the fog of time to me. Thanks.

I think [mention]Newsroom[/mention] may in fact be referring to the circular lights in the offices behind the studio in N8, not N9

Stuart I'm wondering if the "hoop" in N9 could be the weird ceiling protusion that is shown behind and above Mike Embley in this image from the TV live website:


Source: TV Live: BBC World Presentation 2000-2003