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Simple and classy into the news. I like it. Shame there isn't another ident, I can see people complaining about the same Who ident being shown endlessly.
Exactly- the more particular an ident is, the more tiresome it can become. (It's like having the same joke retold and retold and retold...) I'm sure that some viewers are already becoming tired of the Doctor Who ident, which is fine as a one-off and would have been acceptable (though not my personal preference) in t'olden days when the ident was on-air for 3 days, rather than 3 weeks.
I think this is why people liked the ITV1 ident from last year. It was simple but effective and, for me anyway, it never got old.
With the BBC One idents, like you said, they are like the same joke being told over and over.
I remember last year, when I first saw the W&G ident I loved it, by christmas day I was fed up of seeing it before every program, and I think it will be exactly the same this year.
If they used it along side the two variants of the penguins ident (with and without the christmas tree) and the snowball ident, this would be perfect.
I think a relatively simple generic Christmas ident from about 20-31 December and then a similarly simple New Year one up to the 6th January is the way to go. There would have to be an obvious new season of programmes in January, though, and, unfortunately, we have long been in an era where the idents (at least on BBC1) are varied and the style of trailers and programmes themselves are not- which is perverse.
I've stated it a few times, but what people seem to forget is that presentation should be about framing or highlighting programmes, not drawing attention to itself and distracting/detracting from programmes.
Brilliant news ident. Shows a darker sky and a logo formation (usual circle formation).
Simple and classy into the news. I like it. Shame there isn't another ident, I can see people complaining about the same Who ident being shown endlessly.
Exactly- the more particular an ident is, the more tiresome it can become. (It's like having the same joke retold and retold and retold...) I'm sure that some viewers are already becoming tired of the Doctor Who ident, which is fine as a one-off and would have been acceptable (though not my personal preference) in t'olden days when the ident was on-air for 3 days, rather than 3 weeks.
I think this is why people liked the ITV1 ident from last year. It was simple but effective and, for me anyway, it never got old.
With the BBC One idents, like you said, they are like the same joke being told over and over.
I remember last year, when I first saw the W&G ident I loved it, by christmas day I was fed up of seeing it before every program, and I think it will be exactly the same this year.
If they used it along side the two variants of the penguins ident (with and without the christmas tree) and the snowball ident, this would be perfect.
I think a relatively simple generic Christmas ident from about 20-31 December and then a similarly simple New Year one up to the 6th January is the way to go. There would have to be an obvious new season of programmes in January, though, and, unfortunately, we have long been in an era where the idents (at least on BBC1) are varied and the style of trailers and programmes themselves are not- which is perverse.
I've stated it a few times, but what people seem to forget is that presentation should be about framing or highlighting programmes, not drawing attention to itself and distracting/detracting from programmes.
Last edited by Paul02 on 13 December 2009 2:13pm
