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International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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WW
WW Update
Quatorzine Neko posted:
It has been revealed, in France•tv's recent conference, that new visuals will be deployed on France 2's main bulletins.

They will use the Brown font just like France 3 and Franceinfo. The septuple-metre musical theme will be kept.

(Inspiration from VRT probably.) Here's a foretaste of it:





The idea of using Brown makes sense, but I hope they work on the execution. The preview doesn't really work for me.
SH
Sh1ruba
WW Update posted:
Quatorzine Neko posted:
It has been revealed, in France•tv's recent conference, that new visuals will be deployed on France 2's main bulletins.

They will use the Brown font just like France 3 and Franceinfo. The septuple-metre musical theme will be kept.

(Inspiration from VRT probably.) Here's a foretaste of it:





The idea of using Brown makes sense, but I hope they work on the execution. The preview doesn't really work for me.

Yeah, hopefully once it's on air, they'll tweak to make it a little better.
AG
AxG
They could have had the the thicker part extend further to 8 o'clock.
BR
Brekkie
I quite like the look of that.
WW
WW Update
If you ask me (which no one did Smile ), the atrium look from a few years ago was France 2's most effective recent intro:

LL
London Lite Founding member
I wondered if France 2 would ever use the Brown font for the news bulletins. The 6h00 info/6h30 info bulletins which are produced by Franceinfo already use the font.
QN
Quatorzine Neko
AxG posted:
They could have had the the thicker part extend further to 8 o'clock.

It would make sense (and many suggested this idea on the French forum Lenodal), but would perhaps become tricky or not-so-beautiful for the 1 o'clock bulletin's logo.
WW
WW Update
ZDF, West Germany, 1980s; from the text-only headline era before a full-fledged headline sequence was introduced:

8B
8baan
WW Update posted:
ZDF, West Germany, 1980s; from the text-only headline era before a full-fledged headline sequence was introduced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-vpc43eoQ


That theme sounds remarkably jolly and happy for a news programme
WW
WW Update
EenNederlander posted:
WW Update posted:
ZDF, West Germany, 1980s; from the text-only headline era before a full-fledged headline sequence was introduced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-vpc43eoQ


That theme sounds remarkably jolly and happy for a news programme



The late-night version of the theme even included a saxophone riff:

WW
WW Update
On the subject of unusual themes, ITN's upbeat Non-Stop (used for unbranded newscasts) is frequently given as an example of music totally unsuitable for the news -- it may not have been out-of-place in the 1950s, when it premiered, but by the late 1970s, its use was jarring to say the least:



It was discontinued in the early 1980s.
Last edited by WW Update on 20 June 2019 11:38pm
VM
VMPhil
Ha. 'That's after the news, and the news is now'!

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