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Virtual Parliament House

Take a look at the Virtual Parliament House that Nine has prepared for its Election Night coverage.

Take a look at the Virtual Studio Nine has prepared for its Election Night coverage.

Michael Usher is set to “appear” in the House of Representatives as this behind the scenes clip illustrates. Looks pretty good.

Of course one wrong step by Usher and a fumble will be ripe for a YouTube sequel. Or a parody on Yes We Canberra!

Meanwhile Seven has also embraced new technology inviting viewers to register for Election SMS Updates with customised seat results that you can check at its Yahoo website. Be sure to check Terms and Conditions.

ABC also has iPhone and iPad applications available for the big night.

But do they have a Virtual Studio?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAoioHTTgGA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

18 Responses

  1. I understand the red and blue teams, But cant see how you get them to kick.
    I can’t see any handles!!!
    Where does the little soccerball get placed to start?
    It would seem the blues have an advantage as the reporter has placed an invsible block in front of the goals.

  2. The Daily Show had some interesting clips of the sort of ridiculous visual tech that was injected into the last US and UK elections…

    thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-21-2010/united-kingdom-general-election

    (see from about 07:30 onwards in the video).

  3. @camo. Wrong. Labor/Government/Red should be on the Speaker’s right. Blue/Libs on the Speaker’s left.
    @Rob. so why can’t they do things correctly from the beginning? Tell upstairs Howard is the bald one, Gillard is the redhead. That should help them sorting out their graphics too. Looks very “Play School” to me. “Just gimme the facts mam, just the facts”.

  4. This will be like all Nine news presentations … all glitter, no substance.

    I guess that they will be glad when the campaign is over, so that they can return to reporting on what they do best, Lindsey Lohan and co.

  5. All that is wrong is the colout of the Virtual people. The Red and Blue should be swapped, but the ‘Labor’ and ‘Coalition’ signs on the wall are correct.

  6. You’re wrong Jackson…the speakers chair (which is what we are looking at and is behind Usher) is the same angle we always see the house of reps…so the graphic is wrong the Red dude should be camera /screen left and the libs cam right

  7. the graphic up the back of the “house is right” maybe the person putting the people into the virtual set is either a) the graphics person is a liberal supporter hoping thats the outcome…b) the election is rigged and Laurie Oakes will decide for everyone in the nation…i mean he Is the main with His finger on the pulse… or c) I actually dont have one…can anyone help??

  8. @BM-dog that video shows the parties in their correct position. Most broadcast footage from the House of Reps (news or question time) is shot from the opposite end of the chamber (i.e above the head of the speaker) so it may appear wrong, but they have it right.

  9. This sort of thing is very big in the UK, but I find that mostly it ends up with the presenters taking five minutes and a huge amount of fancy animation to explain something simple that they could have got through in thirty seconds. Will be interesting to see how Nine handles it though.

    (Also, in the House of Representatives graphic the parties are the wrong way round – as the party in government, Labor should be to the left of the camera.)

  10. Aren’t the colours wrong? Shouldn’t the red people be on the left and the blue people on the right? The Labor & Coalition captions are in the correct colours. Shouldn’t the people match? According to the “figures” the people on the left (government side) should be Labor (red). ??

  11. They’re off to a good start…

    The first graphic shows that the Co-alition is in government and the ALP sitting on the opposition side of the chamber…

    aph.gov.au/house/work/chamber.htm

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