Digital News - Virtual Studio Idea

The virtual studio was a very big thing for the group, but specially for me as I was the one creating it. At the beginning the idea was just to find a template of a nice studio and adapt it with our colors and use it, but it didn't really seem to work. The original studio was something I had in my possession from a previous training and it is all royalty free, so the idea was alright, but then the problems started to come. I finished the first studio and brought it for our green screen training, but neither Danny or Helen liked it and in my opinion I didn't really like it that much either. This is a screenshot of the design of it:

The idea was to have the anchor standing and presenting the whole news segment form there as some relevant videos or images were in the background in the both big screens. The virtual studio is not bad, is just very flashy and doesn't really suit our brand, which is why we decided to create one from scratch and just do exactly what we needed. We discussed different ideas on what we all thought that was necessary to have in the studio. Here is the list of it:

- A monitor

- Anchor in a mid-shot

- A small studio

- Sport look

With all those elements I started searching and looking for some ideas to create the studio. I looked into studios like Sky Sports and ESPN, but none of them were really virtual, which didn't really help on what I wanted. The only thing that did help, was to have more or less a look at the kind of light and how the layout should have been. This are both the examples on what I looked at:

ESPN

Sky Sports

I realised that it wasn't going to work, so I remembered something that was definitely going to help me and it was the gaming news I look at sometimes from a very big company like it is IGN (Imagine Games Network) which is an online only news company. They have their own channel and massive brand on youtube and by looking at of their segments again I realised that what they were doing was more or less exactly what I wanted for the final studio for our project. It included sort of a mid-shot, some of them include a screen and it is very online newsy, which goes with ours as well since it is online only. This is a screenshot of what make me had the idea for our studio:

Although it has a real working place on the background of the right side, it has more or less the ideal scheme for ours. It has some sort of monitors, so virtual areas, sort of a mid-shot and it does look very according to the their brand. After looking at it and taking everything into account, the whole idea just started to emerge.