I've worked in many TV control rooms and each room was usually dedicated to a specific purpose. Master Control, Production Control, Sub Control, Field Control (remote truck), etc. In small stations/production houses a control room may serve multiple purposes throughout the day. The needs of a Master Control operator are different from a newscast director.
At one station I was at Production Control was used for the morning, noon, 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 pm newscasts. Between the morning and noon newscasts it was used to produce commercials and some basic editing using the tape machines in Master Control. Sometimes this was also done in the early afternoon. Once 3 pm hit Production Control was in pre-production mode for the newscasts. The morning and noon newscasts were not so demanding, relying mostly on the elements produced the night before or that could be put together in an hour or so before the shows went on. Task and workflow based layouts, such as what Adobe introduced with Lightroom, may be applicable to your situation. It would also be nice if today's technology could be used to solve old problems. For example, I would have loved to have had an audio signal indicator in addition to the audio level meter. You never knew if a mic was working unless someone was talking. Having a light indicating the presence of a signal would have been helpful, say letting you know the anchor's mic just went dead before you came out of commercial. Good luck, Darian. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM, steve <stevetaylor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm wondering of anyone has any experienced with designing > interfaces for tv production room monitor-wall / multiviewer > displays? > > I'm working on an interface for one at the moment which is made up > of a number of user selected objects such as video tiles, audio > meters, text displays, clocks and timers (all standard TV production > tools) and just wondered if anyone has any experience designing for > this kind of environment that they could share? > > Factors that have come up so far in discussions are legibility of > displays, font face and size, colour schemes and contrast ratios... > > any advice or discussion is warmly welcomed, > > Cheers, > > Steve. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
