ITV Regional News Custom Titles

JD

jdtech 23 March 2006 5:02pm

Just browsing through the MP stream site and found that ITV West used as special set of titles for the Cheltenham festival but are "custom" titles going to become more commonplace with the relaunch. Were any special titles used on the 2004 scheme?

I'll get a vid up ASAP.

JD

jdtech 23 March 2006 5:11pm

DB

dbl 23 March 2006 5:24pm

Well Meridian Tonight (South East) did special christmas panto titles:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvsouthandsoutheast/meridian/news/meridiantonight23122005cs.jpg
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvsouthandsoutheast/meridian/news/meridiantonight23122005as.jpg

(Pictures from TV ARK)

LE

Lee 23 March 2006 5:43pm

The regions are supplied a set of graphics and titles, some are completely blank with no pictures and no logo, some are never used. It makes it quite easy for the regions to create their own custom titles from that because all they have to do is overlay a picture onto the spotlights.

The Meridian one looks completely mocked up, its a guess but I reckon they weren't provided with a blank set of titles in 2004 like they are today - and even if they were it might've been difficult to align the pictures with the spinning squares, so they just recreated them from scratch and used the blue moving squares video in the background, mixing in the logo at the end.

DA

DAS Founding member 23 March 2006 5:44pm

From what I recall of the Meridian titles, they had a bit of a funny feel to them as though they'd been created from scratch.

Red Bee Media created both the new BBC London titles and the ITV Regional titles. Interestingly, the BBC London titles were created as a template so that BBC London themselves could put whatever pictures they chose into the sequence and render them. Perhaps this is the case for the ITV regions?

DA

DAS Founding member 23 March 2006 5:45pm

And Lee's pretty much said it.

The b�stard.

JD

jdtech 23 March 2006 5:53pm

Remember when ITV Wales/West relaunched their news in 2005 and the logo part always looked a bit different to the other regions' titles.

John

MB

Mark Boulton 24 March 2006 11:26am

This thread has taken me by surprise - has Cheltenham moved to the (ex-HTV) West region? It must have done, otherwise nobody in Cheltenham would have seen this, being firmly in Central South's radiation catchment area and HTV's signal being all but cut off (certainly not watchable) by the surrounding hills.

NH

Nick Harvey Founding member 24 March 2006 11:51am

I doubt anyone at Bath Road knows what their service area is.

It was the viewer in Trowbridge on duty on the Cheltenham Festival days, so I shouldn't think she'd be any the wiser.

Anyway, the sat truck never normally goes so far from Bristol, so I expect they told them to go to Wincanton for the races and the driver got lost again.

VI

Viewer 2 April 2006 2:05pm

HTV weren't using their Upod - they had an old blue SIS truck instead, driving in and out each day. Central South had their Upod in the compound all week.

FN

From Norwich 3 April 2006 5:12pm

ITV West also produced a unique set of titles for the 2005 Christmas Eve programme.

These were similar to the Meridian idea, with Christmas Images and animated snowflakes replacing the ITV blocks on the logo form-up.

It was produced to a very high standard.

IMHO The West Tonight has improved greatly of late, with Steve Scott being an improvement on Richard Lyddon. He is only on Monday to Thursday due to presenting the ITV Evening News on Friday, when he is replaced by Jed Pitman, ITV West's Head of Sport.

HTV long-termer Bob Crampton presents the weather from the studio, giving much more interaction between the presenters.

The programme finally has some chemistry, and there has been continuity in the reporting line-up for some time.

Friday is the best day, as it has a more informal style, and can be quite funny. Jed Pitman takes the p*ss out of some of the stories, and did not try to hide his shame when inviting viewers to enter a competition to meet Daniel O'Donnell last week.

The knockers should give the programme a reappraisal, as apart from some predicatable studio camerawork, it has really improved.

FN

From Norwich 7 April 2006 3:50pm

Another "custom" set of titles for The West Tonight , today 6pm, Friday 7th April.

The programme is an OB from the Clifton Suspension Bridge to celebrate 200 years of Brunel.

(Tempting just to show the late 1980's HTV News sequence, which consisted of a nice aerial shot of the bridge. )

ITV Regional News Custom Titles

(March 2006)