13-06-2022, 10:28 PM
(13-06-2022, 09:40 PM)ginnyfan Wrote: But studio E still has something no other fancy set up can give you - the depth of a gigantic, real newsroom behind. The set can be refreshed, with a different desk and a better newswall but it really doesn't need anything else.
Exactly! Losing the live real newsroom behind feels like a step backwards, seeing what happens as news breaks and people walk around etc - it felt as though you were there where the action happened. Same happened with Midlands Today - a huge real newsroom was lost and covered over with frosted glass before being replaced with a fake background. Huw with a fake flat background behind doesn't look as good in my opinion, he looks very lonely in that massive empty studio.
Huw just walked across to Faisal and all those ugly black cameras and camera tracks were in plain sight. I feel ITV's theatre of news set from 2004 felt far more easy on the eye for standing presentation than this.