Alasdair Lawrance
I’ve just watched an interview (Feb 2016) with the sometime Ambassador to North Korea, and the ‘Newsroom’ background appears to be on a loop – a woman in a blue dress walked through shot twice without coming back. Had a ‘Live’ flag on it, too – maybe that was just the talking head.
Peter Neill
Yes, you’re absolutely right. This would have been one of the “cubby-hole” studios with a looped CSO background. The shot is from a different position to the newsroom camera -which is fixed.
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Most regional newsrooms now have such an arrangement to give a more controlled environment. Often the background is a still, but Tunbridge Wells have gone a step further and have created a CGI newsroom – only the people are real.
To see how it was done, watch here. It’s only 2 minutes.
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Tony Crake
So… I feel slightly stupid watching it…
So there is nobody in the CGI Newsroom?
So wouldn’t it be cheaper to watch the real Newsroom?
So perhaps there is No actual "News"?
I’m probably missing something here?
Ian Hillson
Someone at the Daily Mail finally spots that the BBC newsroom background is looped (May 2016).
A couple of years or so ago when BBC London used a loop as a background on their Breakfast TV opt-outs, I used to look for that white transit van reversing. Now I have to look for the man coming in stage left with the black bin liner.
Mike Jordan
Not forgetting the London News which has had a moored barge in shot for almost the whole time it has been in BH and a bus going over the bridge. They did photoshop the Eye into blue a few years ago but the basic is still the same.
At least in Manchester for “Breakfast” it is always lovely weather with the deck chairs (and a TV) on the open balcony outside.
The Marr Show gave in during an earlier life and changed the backing when the trees should have dropped their leaves.
And of course we all know the backing to London ITV news is real with that nice shot across the Thames in the back (not really anywhere like Greys Inn Road!)
Vernon Dyer
ITV Westcountry has a pseudo-webcam image of the Tamar bridges as a b/g. We used to count 4 or 5 HSTs crossing the Royal Albert Bridge (in the same direction) during a half-hour news programme. Highly unlikely! I think they’ve cottoned on and been a bit more careful in recent weeks.
