The siren at the beginning had a mallet-like echo on. It was very hospital-y. I think it was its pristeness. It rang, echoed, then stopped. Then it rang, echoed, then stopped whilst also resembling a siren, and one of those heart-rate-measurer-thingys (what is the name of them :s?) with synthisised strings playing a little-melody in between. The first arrangement seems the most hospital-y. There is, in my opinion, at least, a very spider-y feel to it, which is camaflauged, by synth' strings. Real strings just boasts this, in my opinion. Not that spiders are bad, of course, it is just not a show about spiders !
Visually it looks rather too similar to ER for my liking - and the new arrangement just doesn't work for me. (Sounds a bit like the awful orchestral Five News stuff of a few years ago)
The original music was still the best for me. Although it was written in the 80s (same guy - Ken Freeman - did the music for The Tripods) it hasn't really dated for me. The late 80s / early 90s titles (they were partially from a patient's view and had that slight "bathroom glass" effect) worked well for me as well - very clean and crisp.
Having said that - the new titles do look quite "modular" - and it should be relatively easy to replace cast members in them.
The siren at the beginning
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had a mallet-like echo on. It was very hospital-y. I think it was its pristeness. It rang, echoed, then stopped. Then it rang, echoed, then stopped whilst also resembling a siren, and one of those heart-rate-measurer-thingys (what is the name of them :s?) with synthisised strings playing a little-melody in between. The first arrangement seems the most hospital-y.
Why am I imaging Art critic, Brian Sewell saying that..?
Some changes to the Casualty format tonight... now a preview montage pre-opening titles and a "next on Casualty" segment before the closing credits. Also, unless I seriously couldn't hear last week because of the announcer, they've added some backing bars to the closing theme as heard on the original closing music giving it a bespoke sound when compared to the opening song.
Some changes to the Casualty format tonight... now a preview montage pre-opening titles and a "next on Casualty" segment before the closing credits. Also, unless I seriously couldn't hear last week because of the announcer, they've added some backing bars to the closing theme as heard on the original closing music giving it a bespoke sound when compared to the opening song.
I think they may have done that to boost the running time and even then it only ran to approx 52 mins for an hour long slot
They had the 'nexk week' a few years ago. I saw that on the end of one episode that was repeated.
I have also noticed that they have returned the very old 'dum-dum-de-dum-dum-dum-dum' repeated pattern at the very end of the song, which repeate to the final note.
Yeh, that's the bit I meant. The final few chords that you used to get at the end of the original song now played over the last bit of the current closing song. Great stuff.
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