[BC] The Driveway Shot

[Larry Fuss]

> Why is it important to have someone standing in front of the White House
doing 
the same thing? We've all seen the driveway many times before.

TV stations here in Vegas are really bad about that.  They'll do a live shot
on the 10 pm news from the scene of the tragic morning-drive accident.  Of
course, by then, there's nothing to see but some street lights.  Or they'll
do a live shot from the front of the Board of Education building, where the
board met hours earlier.  At 10 pm, it's just an empty building.  Is there
really any point to that?  Why not just stand in front of green screen and
key a picture behind the reporter?  I guess it's because "we've got a remote
truck and by gawd we're gonna use it, even if there's nothing to see."

LF