Casual News Aesthetics: A Threat to Set Design?
- Set designers are evaluating the financial and professional implications of a trend in which news networks adopt a casual on-air aesthetic similar to that of podcasts.
- This shift in visual presentation is associated with major networks, including CNN, and MSNBC.
- The transition toward a podcast-style look represents a move away from traditional, high-production set designs in favor of more minimalist environments.
Set designers are evaluating the financial and professional implications of a trend in which news networks adopt a casual on-air aesthetic similar to that of podcasts.
This shift in visual presentation is associated with major networks, including CNN, and MSNBC.
The transition toward a podcast-style look represents a move away from traditional, high-production set designs in favor of more minimalist environments.
This development occurs within a broader context of news aesthetics. Research regarding the aesthetic practice of news and the media prosumer suggests that the visual presentation of news is often characterized by a tension between appearance and content.
it exposes the bond between presented beauty and absented truth, arguing that this conflicted relationship marks the essence of news aesthetics.
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As networks move toward these casual looks, industry professionals are weighing the real cost of these changes to the set design business.