BBC News (National) Studio.
Throughout the day, at the 1, 6 & 10 o'clock news slots, the studio remains similar, although not the same. The key point of this, is that the studio provide continuity within the brand, it mainly achieves this through the use of colour.
The studio uses a simplistic colour scheme of mainly red and white, reflecting the colours of the brand, giving itself a solid brand identity. Also, this studio uses light in an effective way, ensuring that all areas of the studio are equally lighted, making it seem that the presenter is a room larger than it actually is. Finally the table in the middle provides a central focal point for the viewer to concentrate on.
BBC News (Local) Studio.
Its clear that the local news adopt a more relaxed approach, having a sofa with a smaller coffee type table in front of the presenter, perhaps reflecting the lack of urgency and importance in local news.
Studio Development
Here you can see the gradual process of turning a classroom into a news studio, this provides numerous challenges mainly surrounding light, however we have managed to solve this issues using two high power work lights along with ceiling lights to ensure the studio is adequately lit. Although we were happy with this studio layout, after analysing the test footage, it soon became clear that our DIY blue screen wasn't quite as good as we'd hoped:
Upon returning to the studio in the next lesson, a mild disaster has happened, a torrential hail storm had cause the buildings roof to leak, all over the blue screen, so it would have needed to have been replaced anyway.
This final video was the test for the new blue screen, and because it was filmed on a mobile phone, its caused some shaking which disturbs the video stability, but apart from that it looks good. We used Motion 5.
