A Day in the Life of Continuity Announcer Julian Simmons:

'Behind the Scenes' Images

 

The images below are taken from a documentary entitled 'Julian', which was broadcast on Belfast's community TV channel, NvTv. They show various behind the scenes shots of UTV's CSO studio, their central technical area, newsroom and the old Kelly studio as Julian Simmons shows us what a day in his life is really like...

 

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ABOVE: Various shots of UTV's CSO studio where in-vision continuity

announcements and short UTV News bulletins are broadcast from

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: Shots of the monitors seen by the presenter

The top monitor shows the station's current on-air output while the bottom shows the image

being shot from the camera in front of the presenter

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: Images of the two cameras located in the CSO studio

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Third row left: the image being framed by the camera        Third row right: Julian recording the weather forecast from the second 'green screen' area

Bottom row right: Autocue as seen by the presenter

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: More shots of the CSO studio

Third row right: Computer used to prepare autocue

Bottom row left: Julian's script

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: UTV's central technical area

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: UTV newsroom

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: Julian preparing for the weather forecast

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: Preparing the weather forecast for broadcast

 

 

 

 

 

ABOVE: Various behind the scenes shots of the Kelly studio