Yeah realistically those skylight windows at the top would have diffusers on them to now throw out the colour balance of the lighting in there.
Next steps for this setup I feel should be a riser for the desk and a platform by the big screen area that is matte, so the fake reflections of the VR set don’t / can’t appear on it. (in the case of the green screen)
Just watched Melbourne on a big screen TV for the first time. Gosh, it looks brilliant. In nearly all shots if I didn’t know it was VR, I would think it was a real set. Great stuff.
This is such a bad and flat opening shot. I thought it was a first-night error but they keep doing it.
How, with literally limitless ‘virtual’ possibilities, do you end up with Jen off-centre, half out of frame, half in-front of the desk, 10 brand barely visible…
Agree. The shot should be about her and the 10 News brand.
Both feel tiny and not prioritised here
Tbf it does zoom in slowly. But I kinda agree. Personally I’d add in a virtual monolith and have a shot like this:
And on Wednesday the rating edged higher to 68,000.
Even the reporters look like AI 
Wouldn’t the green studio be difficult to work in for the presenters and camera people for spacial awareness, not having a ‘physical’ set? I would think it would be rather distracting and unconformable to be honest.
I guess it would take some time to get use to.
The TV show Once Upon a Time famously used green studios extensively. I remember an interview with the actors and creators where they said you go home after a shoot and you see orange when you close your eyes because it’s the colour opposite of green.
A TV show shoot day vs 1-2hrs for a news bulletin would be very different, but I wonder if 10 Melbourne are having a similar adjustment.
I spent hours a day on a virtual set once upon a time and my eyes went green after a while
Whenever I’d work on our green screen, everything would get a pink tinge.
One of the many problems with virtual sets is they rarely look like sets that could have actually been constructed.
Considering how OTT fake 10’s Melbourne set looks, I’m not sure how one could think that it was a real set
It’s all great until there’s a malfunction. What happens when there’s a problem? Do they keep reading the news in front of a green screen or do they wheel in an emergency fake backdrop? 
Things famously can’t malfunction in a physical set.
Not a disastrous malfunction but not sure if anyone noticed the random clouds that appeared behind Sandra and Tara on the middle panel during the Sydney sports preview sometime in the last week or so.
Brad?
Yes! I hate how it doesn’t match up, why is there two Opera Houses!?!?!
Agree, there’s only so much that can be done to reflect reality. I think lighting and shadows are always difficult to replicate.
