RH
richard h
Mark Austin is in Cairo now
LJ
Is Julian Manyon actually gone? If so he'll be a huge loss. He was one of my all time favourite correspondents. I remember his coverage from Israel a few years ago was exceptional and he really did take Mugabe on!
GI
Yeah I Emailed ITN asking that a few other updates:
Daisy will be moving in to her Special Correspondent.
Sue Saville is on Sabtactical.
Is Julian Manyon actually gone? If so he'll be a huge loss. He was one of my all time favourite correspondents. I remember his coverage from Israel a few years ago was exceptional and he really did take Mugabe on!
Yeah I Emailed ITN asking that a few other updates:
Daisy will be moving in to her Special Correspondent.
Sue Saville is on Sabtactical.
NI
Sorry to go back to what we were talking about previously, but...
News at Ten preview
News at Ten (2009) with James Mates and Julie Etchingham
ITV News -- Final News at Ten from London Skyline set -- 30/10/09
These three videos really epitomise everything that used to be great about News at Ten - the first one building up to the exciting relaunch of such an iconic, recognised brand of authority. The second and third videos display NAT at it's peak when it really became a fully fledged, engaging programme. It was really growing into its own. Doesn't it say something that well over a year since it last appeared a lot of us still prefer how it used to be..?
(I'm only posting this because the sweeping shot in tonight's NAT reminded me of the previous look - the camera swooped past a - very close-up - glass screen with Mark on it)
OK, normal service can now resume.
News at Ten preview
News at Ten (2009) with James Mates and Julie Etchingham
ITV News -- Final News at Ten from London Skyline set -- 30/10/09
These three videos really epitomise everything that used to be great about News at Ten - the first one building up to the exciting relaunch of such an iconic, recognised brand of authority. The second and third videos display NAT at it's peak when it really became a fully fledged, engaging programme. It was really growing into its own. Doesn't it say something that well over a year since it last appeared a lot of us still prefer how it used to be..?
(I'm only posting this because the sweeping shot in tonight's NAT reminded me of the previous look - the camera swooped past a - very close-up - glass screen with Mark on it)
OK, normal service can now resume.
SE
I agree. Put it all back to that now please. Let's pretend this yellow and grey mess never happened.
Square Eyes
Founding member
Sorry to go back to what we were talking about previously, but...
News at Ten preview
News at Ten (2009) with James Mates and Julie Etchingham
ITV News -- Final News at Ten from London Skyline set -- 30/10/09
These three videos really epitomise everything that used to be great about News at Ten - the first one building up to the exciting relaunch of such an iconic, recognised brand of authority. The second and third videos display NAT at it's peak when it really became a fully fledged, engaging programme. It was really growing into its own. Doesn't it say something that well over a year since it last appeared a lot of us still prefer how it used to be..?
(I'm only posting this because the sweeping shot in tonight's NAT reminded me of the previous look - the camera swooped past a - very close-up - glass screen with Mark on it)
OK, normal service can now resume.
News at Ten preview
News at Ten (2009) with James Mates and Julie Etchingham
ITV News -- Final News at Ten from London Skyline set -- 30/10/09
These three videos really epitomise everything that used to be great about News at Ten - the first one building up to the exciting relaunch of such an iconic, recognised brand of authority. The second and third videos display NAT at it's peak when it really became a fully fledged, engaging programme. It was really growing into its own. Doesn't it say something that well over a year since it last appeared a lot of us still prefer how it used to be..?
(I'm only posting this because the sweeping shot in tonight's NAT reminded me of the previous look - the camera swooped past a - very close-up - glass screen with Mark on it)
OK, normal service can now resume.
I agree. Put it all back to that now please. Let's pretend this yellow and grey mess never happened.
AN
Andrew
Founding member
I'd say only put it back like that for News at Ten. Keep all the others as currently.
The daytime view of London never looked very good and now you'd get the problem of it not looking very different to daybreak in the summer. It was always the dark view of London which was iconic.
The daytime view of London never looked very good and now you'd get the problem of it not looking very different to daybreak in the summer. It was always the dark view of London which was iconic.
AN
Andrew
Founding member
I've been watching some old clips of ITV News on YouTube recently. As usual the dates of the clips throw up queries and cause memories to get clouded.
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
VM
IIRC the Big Ben titles were used until 97 or so, from then on they just used the studio shot. Nothing to do with importance of the bulletin.
I've been watching some old clips of ITV News on YouTube recently. As usual the dates of the clips throw up queries and cause memories to get clouded.
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
IIRC the Big Ben titles were used until 97 or so, from then on they just used the studio shot. Nothing to do with importance of the bulletin.
NI
The blue/clockface look was in use from about April 1995 until March 1999. The clockface titles were in use on the Morning and Lunchtime News bulletins right up until the ITV News relaunch in 1999. The only programme that dropped it's titles was the Early Evening News, in 1998, replaced by (as Phil says) a simple studio shot and the short musical sting used for the weekend bulletins.
I'm not sure why this occurred but maybe somebody else knows...? Seeing as the others kept their titles, I would (lazily) guess that this was done to include more coverage of the news itself by cutting out those valuable seconds - remember the 5:40pm news only ran for just less than 20 minutes back then (but this theory is most likely wrong, I'm not sure how much difference a few seconds would make!!)
Another question - they obviously did not use the clock tower itself for the titles, so how did they make them? Doesn't look anything like CGI, so maybe a physical recreation?
I've been watching some old clips of ITV News on YouTube recently. As usual the dates of the clips throw up queries and cause memories to get clouded.
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
A question, in the 1995-1998 era, where the Big Ben clockface titles and the blue studio wideshot intro used interchangably depending on the importance of the bulletin, or did all bulletins have proper titles and then later all bulletins just had the studio shot?
IIRC the Big Ben titles were used until 97 or so, from then on they just used the studio shot. Nothing to do with importance of the bulletin.
The blue/clockface look was in use from about April 1995 until March 1999. The clockface titles were in use on the Morning and Lunchtime News bulletins right up until the ITV News relaunch in 1999. The only programme that dropped it's titles was the Early Evening News, in 1998, replaced by (as Phil says) a simple studio shot and the short musical sting used for the weekend bulletins.
I'm not sure why this occurred but maybe somebody else knows...? Seeing as the others kept their titles, I would (lazily) guess that this was done to include more coverage of the news itself by cutting out those valuable seconds - remember the 5:40pm news only ran for just less than 20 minutes back then (but this theory is most likely wrong, I'm not sure how much difference a few seconds would make!!)
Another question - they obviously did not use the clock tower itself for the titles, so how did they make them? Doesn't look anything like CGI, so maybe a physical recreation?
UK
I suspect they made a real-life scale model of the clockface and filmed that. It could be CGI I suppose, but it looks far too realistic considering this was 1995!
Another question - they obviously did not use the clock tower itself for the titles, so how did they make them? Doesn't look anything like CGI, so maybe a physical recreation?
I suspect they made a real-life scale model of the clockface and filmed that. It could be CGI I suppose, but it looks far too realistic considering this was 1995!