Launch BBC News: Studio B

[Rolling News]

Oooh a News In Brief music.

[Matt]

I don’t think they’ll manage (or bother) to keep all of this up. I give it a few weeks at most. Think they’re just trying to show us the versatility of B.

[boddington]

Whenever Huw walks across the studio, I'm going to worry he'll get run over by a camera on the train tracks.

[Omnipresent]

The whole bulletin certainly does have a different feel, and leans towards being more personality led.

Interesting to see how other presenters handle the new format.

[Transmission]

The screens are such good quality and high resolution that in many shots, particularly around the desk, I keep thinking it's a virtual set even though I know it's definitely all there.

[SunburntRock89]

By my rough counts, the new titles are about 4 seconds shorter (~10 seconds down from ~14 seconds, very rough but definitely a difference)

[harshy]

Call me old fashioned But I don't get what Huw walking across the studio to Faisal Islam adds to the story about the economy?

It’s to make Faisal nervous and to ensure Huw gets the right answer to make the news at ten a success story.

[thomalex]

As lovely as the new set is it's all a bit too bright for my liking, the lighting likely works well for the 6 but for the 10 it could do with being dimmed down a bit

[Josh]

Don't we normally have a halfway heads opt at :15? I can't say I watch the NaT so I don't know.

[IanJRedman]

The screens are such good quality and high resolution that in many shots, particularly around the desk, I keep thinking it's a virtual set even though I know it's definitely all there.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there - the screens are so high quality (possibly the highest quality I've ever seen) it all has a slightly unreal feel. We'll get used to it!

[bfgarmy]

This does feel a lot more robust a summary of the day’s news and comprehensive analysis of stories than has been common recently on the bulletins where the analysis often felt very ‘by the numbers’. It feels flagship

[Juicy Joe]

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.

[DTV]

The screens are such good quality and high resolution that in many shots, particularly around the desk, I keep thinking it's a virtual set even though I know it's definitely all there.

I think part of this is to do with the lighting. The main desk section seems a bit underlit, as per the Wales Today set, while the backdrop LED walls are very bright. This means your eyes are slightly drawn away from the presenter and towards the backdrop - something that often happens with VR sets.

[Inspector Sands]

The only little thing that doesn't look right to me is that the video wall looks a little short, when Huws standing in front of it the framing looks wrong - there's too much wall seen above it

[IanJRedman]

Don't we normally have a halfway heads opt at :15? I can't say I watch the NaT so I don't know.

On the Six, yes, but not the Ten IIRC.