It makes the studio look even more spacious. They’ve butchered some of the graphics and the OTS is ghastly against the red column. Overall, it’s not bad for a lick of paint.
They’ve also dropped the location name from the VO. It’s just generic now which is a big misstep IMO. I can’t recall whether the titlecard even had the city name on it.
It surprises me how different it looks after a splash of new paint!
It would have been good to see them increase the size of that background screen. It looks a bit small in the background there against the white wall.
Interesting of Livio to write “Queensland Weather” on that title card. It would have been better to write “Local Weather” if they wanted it to be generic, in my opinion. To any random viewer watching a bulletin, he’s not actually covering Queensland weather, rather the local area’s weather
The equipment the regional studios are using must be ancient.
The opener struggles to apply the gradient to the headline backdrop.
Surely an upgrade is on the horizon.
Also interesting that the intro VO doesn’t seem to introduce the region anymore.
Yeah seems like it doesn’t process alpha channels very well… surely they could have at-least given them the headline supers as a hard edge rather than making the software try to apply the gradient. Looks horrible.