Straight off the back of the UK general election, I was lucky enough to work on this year’s US Election coverage, specifically for BBC Arabic & BBC Persian alongside a very talented team to create a suite of real-time VizRT graphics for 3 Studios, which were all being used simultaneously.
The concept of a reusable live data-fed “cards”, inspired from the UK third-form design by Andrew Harris, was used to show election results, which could be driven from a single shared Pilot template for all languages in all studios and run via Mosart, all fed with live data from the BBC’s election data platform.
BBC’s flagship Studio B was used jointly by BBC Arabic & BBC Persian as a results election centre, with a combination of the data “cards” in both screens and AR, an AR map I built, a 3D Virtual white-house designed by Ammar Al-Yasiri and implemented for real-time by Myself and Adil Tazrouti, a touchscreen built by Steve Mantz and Pete Late, and my original Local Elections 2023 Mezzanine design adapted by Caroline Pitt and Gintare Tamasauskaite, and inspired by the UK designs from the UK team.
BBC Arabic’s Studio 34D brought the conversation to the oval office, with a mix of 3D set extensions (again expertly modelled by Ammar Al Yasiri and implemented by Adil Tazrouti), videowall designs and props whilst BBC Persian’s Studio 54D had the touchscreen and data “cards” in their screens. Both outputs could also display the cards as on screen “pushback” graphics when showing live images or the Washington outside broadcast.
This was all perfectly executed under the oversight of Paul Pledger and the team of directors, editorial staff, studio crew and presenters, and created a cohesive experience, with consistency not only across the language services, but also with the UK and international output, as well as online media.
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