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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
Guys i have a question
In the book Angels and Demons, it was said that almost no tv station does real "live" broadcast anymore. The book says that its all just a reporter in front of a screen in the studio with fake wind and rain. Is it true?
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Moderation of news, and other studio productions, are being done in blue box or green box studios indeed. The backgrounds can be animated or still, can be real video or computer graphics.
The most modern and versatile TV studio in Europe is said to be that of the second public TV channel in Germany, ZDF (at least that's what was said when it was introduced a year ago or so). Below, you see the "green hell", as the moderators call it (because they need to orientate their mimic and gestures so that they meet the superimposed images on the final TV screen, but the moderators only see the green background in the studio), and the standard studio theme that the TV audience is seeing instead. It can be replaced with anything else.
Camera-teams out there on the street and filming on location, still are needed to get the film material, though. However, computer graphics are being used for illustration purposes as well.