I have never ever liked red and black as a colourscheme. No disrepect to you Martin, I think your mocks are superb, and after all you are only towing the BBC line.
Red and black is very 1980s-eque - When I moved to my current house in 1990 there was wallpaper in my bedroom left from the previous owners, and it was red, white and black zig-zags on a grey background - it looked awful, but was the style back in the mid-1980s when the wallpaper was put up. It's a nasty, horrible colour-scheme, and why the BBC seem hell bent on using it, is a mystery. It's outdated and crass.
Liquid News however have developed a lovely set of titles, music and on-screen graphics, and the background of the LN logo is WHITE.
Red has never been a suitable colour for any sort of news presentation. Red is a very emotional colour, it's associated with anger and hatred.
Blue is the ideal colour for news presentation, and is still widely used now - the prodominant colour in the Sky Newsroom is blue, if it were red it would look dreadful - that's why BBC News presentation is dreadful.
The ONLY thing I like about BBC News is the wooden floors - they are very nice - they remind me of my house because all of the floors have exactly the same sort of wood as the BBC National news studio - only we don't have ugly red walls.
Kitchen - Cream
Bathrooms - Deep dark green
My bedroom - Blue and green
Hallway - white walls
Gym - White walls
Living room - White and blue
So you see - no one in their right minds would ever paint rooms in their house with red walls.
The old ITN studio was excellent - very modern, would not at all look out of place today. ITN between 1996-1999 was ahead of it's time really.
Oh well, cant please everyone, though only change I made to the straps is the font, from Gill Sans to Helvetica to match the News 24 Countdown Numbers...
