Neil Jones' posts, page 11

BBC Three channel to return in January 2022

"What are you in for?"
"Double homicide. You?"
"Said I'd kill somebody to see BBC Three bring Torchwood back."

Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge Timer

I presume you mean the on screen graphic and not the physical water clocks? The latter you can probably find something similar in Homebase, the former... well probably a standard clock in some wrapping and animations, I dare say if you're relatively up to speed with After Effects (which I'm not), but probably not too difficult to knock up once you have the wrapping.

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How about if we say please?

If we can't have a badge, then I notice you're doing the purple marker/tag/whatever it was called for the insiders, surely it wouldn't be any harder to set up for the founders to have, say, a red one?

Your choice of course whether to do the founders thing or not, I won't mention it again.

ITV Programming Thread

Announcers having bad days would probably say "next on BBC One, its Doctors", while announcing on ITV.
Although that being said, it was discussed previously (was it a Party Political Broadcast?) an ITV announcer did go out on BBC One by accident?

…and finally

Stick a Boogie Beebies logo on the thread, Tumble Dryer will be back like a moth to a flame.

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BBC2 Personality 2 concepts

Make it so.

Some of these concepts you could creatively "adjust" the existing ones. Don't have to be perfect or up to the standards of the existing ones, don't even have to be fully animated in HD, you could put them as animated GIFs if that's all you're able to do.

Heck, even Powerpoint would do, better than nothing.

GMB Slight Graphic Tweak

Right, I've come back to this. Found a clock generator online, customised it slightly and replaced the Télématin sourced clock for something a bit cleaner, and for this image hands a bit further apart at 7:15 which is probably what I should have done in the first place:



Very fine line I found between hands that are too thin and hands that are too thick. This might be too thin. If its too thick it looks too 60s, if its too thin its hard to see.

Turn on the Subtitles campaign

Also of course Netflix (and Amazon and Disney+) don't use traditional "block" subtitles (ie Ceefax style, or the style we know them for). They use a regular font, Arial style, so a letter i for example doesn't take up an entire character block like it does on "traditional" subtitles (ie the spacing between the letters is more normal/natural looking), so there is probably more scope to fit more text on the subtitle if it has a load of narrow characters. Spacing or Kerning I think the technical name for it?

For Prime you can customise the subtitles appearance in your Amazon account (you can pick a colour and a background if you wanted to, and I believe even pick Comic Sans as a font or a more traditional "blocky" font, which I think they call a typewriter font). Netflix for what its worth doesn't let you pick Comic Sans but you can have typewriter.

GMB Slight Graphic Tweak

I would respectfully argue analogue clocks were mainstream on breakfast TV in the 1980s and 1990s, largely dropped because of the screen space they can take up. However by sticking them on top of something else that's already there, that solves the screen space issue (and of course one could vary the thickness of the hands, the border, etc). I didn't do that here as I just reused the one from the Télématin logo. Perhaps making things less thick could work better.

Anyway this just shows why I don't mock. Would be surprised if this gets more than two stars once all's said and done. Better to have tried and failed than not to try at all

GMB Slight Graphic Tweak

Since everybody else is putting up mocks they made and haven't released, I'm going to put this here.

Last summer I had an idea, which I'd had for a while. So I made it. And then never posted it. Now I've found it again and thought I'd put it here.

I basically took a Good Morning Britain screenshot, painted out the clock, moved the ITV News logo from the ticker under the GMB shape, lightened up the GMB text, and then took the analogue clock from a Télématin logo/slide somewhere and stuck it on top of the GMB bug, resizing it as appropriate.



Think I never posted it because I wasn't 100% happy with it. But its a proof of concept if nothing else. The ITV News tag could change with the contents of the ticker so Entertainment or whatever. I suppose if I'd thought about it I could have chopped out the bottom left of the GMB bug so it lines up with the clock.

So I can now say I have contributed to the gallery in both ways.

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