Hurricane Ophelia

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Jonny 17 October 2017 9:27am

Steve in Pudsey posted:

It looks dated because of the Futura font, which works with the 90s idents on BBC 2 but not so well on BBC 1.

That's Gill Sans, not Futura?

Very reminiscent of the 1997 BBC2 informational slide, based on the Paint Pot ident.

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VMPhil 17 October 2017 10:01pm

Critique posted:

Asa posted:

And for completeness, the announcement by Paul Reid after MOTD last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vJ-72FHnc

Very curious about the design of this slide - it's very neat but equally looks quite old. I know BBC NI go to a bit more effort than the rest, but surely they didn't quickly design something like this? Is this a template for a special type of announcement we've just not seen before?

It looks like the BBC Two slide without any branding and the text moved to the centre, so it looks a bit empty. I imagine it was put together at short-notice so they just re-used the BBC Two template and changed a few things? As Jonny says the background is reminiscent of the 1997 BBC Two design but it's not the exact same one.

http://thetvroom.com/images/pool-z/z-037/main-003-01.jpg

I would have thought if there was a template for an emergency slide it would look more like this example from BBC Wales, just with the new trail endboard background:

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robertclark125 17 October 2017 10:47pm

I think one reason the slide may have looked empty, was in case they had to add something else to it later, such as "Hospital outpatient appointments are cancelled today" or "all train and bus services in Northern Ireland are cancelled today".

(October 2017)