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CY
cylon6
Asa posted:


Oh balls, missed that. Any chance of an upload please Paul? I'm trying to work out how the 2 goes from being in the corner to in the centre of the screen, and larger. So that's Fish, Invisible Walls and Self Portrait that I know have menus, any others? Maybe Sticky Label or Big Read?

In terms of the new 2, definitely good to see it break out of yellow and return to some live action. I guess by keeping the 2 it was always a sensible progression to take it a step further than just filming another set of the 91-01 style and having the 2 as a cutout (ok, 'window' Very Happy ) is pretty good and gives lots of scope.

Two things could let this rebrand down. 1) the music. Mirror looks stunning from the picture to me but if the audio is just some bike noise then it's going to let it down. Similarly with Seascape - just crashing waves won't do it justice. And 2) the additional presentation material - slides, trail design, menus, whatever they may be they've got to be visually interesting. Remember the days where the slides used to contain part of the ident?

Nice to see the purple disappearing but shame about the box staying for me. There's nothing wrong with going back to the centre of the screen, boxless. It's going to make the "Northern Ireland" text look tiny.

Oh and I'll re-encode that Liquid News clip when I get some time. If only it was around today...!

Cheers, Asa


Liquid News died with Christopher Price as far as I was concerned. What a great presenter he was. Crying or Very sad

The new 2's were limited by their colour scheme and also because they were computer genrated, the older 2's were generated in so many different ways. And as I've said before these new 2's look closer in style to the sting 2's rather than the 2's used to introduce the programmes.

Far more room for scope with this new idea and I hope they add to the set fairly regularly. I also think TV companies should launch with at least 10 new idents when they make a change over.

Does anybody not want to record these computer 2's before they go or is it just me?
PC
Paul Clark
Asa posted:
Paul Clark posted:
An appearance of the Fish Menu and rundown of Thursday's night

line-up, and a goodnight from Belfast.


Oh balls, missed that. Any chance of an upload please Paul?

I've got it recorded but not on the computer ready to upload just yet, I'll get round to it at some point.

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I'm trying to work out how the 2 goes from being in the corner to in the centre of the screen, and larger.

It didn't; as I said there was a straight 'switch' to the ident, rather than a smooth segue from the Menu to the '2' moving into position for the ident, that you would have seen in other instances.

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So that's Fish, Invisible Walls and Self Portrait that I know have menus, any others? Maybe Sticky Label or Big Read?

As it happens, there was Logo, played out around the end of last month - Starts off with no logo on the screen at all, and the 2 moves off the left side out of view, before reappearing where it normally would with logo in-hand, placing it into position. A reversed version of it has been used lately by NI for BBC Four programming, ending instead with Four's centered logo where the Menu would be.
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cylon6
You don't need to wait until February 18th for the wall chart. And look at the bottom, it's another scene from 'Chase.' I think these idents could possibly surprise us at how good they look onscreen.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/pdf/ident_poster.pdf
CI
cifpower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZIK3Ry_uk&NR

BBC One oriented but very funny
JO
Jonny
Just been looking at the BBC2 schedule for tonight and notice 'Gardeners World' is on at 8.30pm.

Could this be the last ever airing of the 'Predator/Venus Fly Trap' ident?

And, on Youtube I've found this spoof of the new idents Click Me

Forget the imagery and concentrate on the music used. Is it just me or would the old 'Balloon' ident music work really well with the new 'Sunroof' ident?
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Spencer
Brekkie Boy posted:
No one seems to have mentioned yet but from the stills at least the "Cappuccino" appears to be the odd one out and doesn't seem to fit the theme - to me at least.


I'd been thinking that. Some cocoa sprinkled on a cappucino isn't really a window on the world. However looking at the light reflected on the table, it's conceivable it could be coming from a 2-shaped window. Perhaps.
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Shame they didn't launch the new idents today... after all, it was 16 years ago today that we were first introduced to the 2.
DR
drnilescrane
plucky duck92 posted:

Forget the imagery and concentrate on the music used. Is it just me or would the old 'Balloon' ident music work really well with the new 'Sunroof' ident?


Me too - though I would love to know what instrument is making that continual pulsing in the background - it was used in all the idents and it bugs me not knowing what it is.
JR
jrothwell97
James Vertigan posted:
Shame they didn't launch the new idents today... after all, it was 16 years ago today that we were first introduced to the 2.


As I've said before, what would have made the transition to the new idents brilliant would be the final yellow ident at a peak-time junction. Then at the next junction the new package would start. But that would be FAR too complicated...
JR
jrothwell97
plucky duck92 posted:
Could this be the last ever airing of the 'Predator/Venus Fly Trap' ident?


It might be, but with this new varied image I wouldn't be surprised if old idents were frequently lifted off their hanger, dusted down and thrown into the tape player. It would be quite nice to see Paint leading in to The Culture Show... if only...
CL
clarky
cylon6 posted:
You don't need to wait until February 18th for the wall chart. And look at the bottom, it's another scene from 'Chase.' I think these idents could possibly surprise us at how good they look onscreen.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/pdf/ident_poster.pdf



Anyone else think this could be a second ident on the 'theme' of chase?
JO
Johnny83
cylon6 posted:
You don't need to wait until February 18th for the wall chart. And look at the bottom, it's another scene from 'Chase.' I think these idents could possibly surprise us at how good they look onscreen.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/pdf/ident_poster.pdf


It does look alot better judging from that screen cap, I'll be honest I thought on the image in the press release that the man was sleeping next to the ident at first & didn't get why it was called chase, I see why now

Regarding the wall chart, those pictures of the old early 90's stings bring back memories, except for the Mecanno (sp) one, does anyone have a clip of that one at all I don't remember seeing that one on air Confused

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