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CITV at 20

(January 2003)

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ITVonly
fanoftv posted:
Those computer one's from april were rubbish. The logo was the same, except they had the letters wobbling into different directions, looking like they were having a fit and looked as though it was made in flash. I had always thought that they were fill in titles as the previous had been going since sept 1999 and the graphics team wanted to create something great, as they have now. The current graphics with the dancing letters were bought in in october the monday before the itv relaunch, mainly as they had special graphics for a halloween special, and it wouldn't have looked good if they had great raphics like that at halloween, then back to the others.

Set wise, I like what they've done on gmtv's diggn'it, it's mainly studio disney's set, but they've put their own bit which has fake walls around it (most probably from the old studio disney) with junk and bits and bobs, like the first couple of series of channel 4's the priory, and I've always thpught that they could incorporate this into citv. I liked how they had an audience and had the crew cheering through the birthday bash, it changed it, the only way citv can get more viewers is by being different.


Diggin'iT looks rubbish!
Has Diggit gone forever?
AJ
AJB


It's called AMORPEUS (or something like that). Upper case is only availiable. The designer (Ryan Huges) designed lower-case esp. for CiTV.

It can remember the voice-over man at the end of CiTV and porkie pig ran up a line of the end. Has anyone got a capture. I'd love to see it again.
AJ
AJB
ITVonly posted:
fanoftv posted:
Those computer one's from april were rubbish. The logo was the same, except they had the letters wobbling into different directions, looking like they were having a fit and looked as though it was made in flash. I had always thought that they were fill in titles as the previous had been going since sept 1999 and the graphics team wanted to create something great, as they have now. The current graphics with the dancing letters were bought in in october the monday before the itv relaunch, mainly as they had special graphics for a halloween special, and it wouldn't have looked good if they had great raphics like that at halloween, then back to the others.

Set wise, I like what they've done on gmtv's diggn'it, it's mainly studio disney's set, but they've put their own bit which has fake walls around it (most probably from the old studio disney) with junk and bits and bobs, like the first couple of series of channel 4's the priory, and I've always thpught that they could incorporate this into citv. I liked how they had an audience and had the crew cheering through the birthday bash, it changed it, the only way citv can get more viewers is by being different.


Diggin'iT looks rubbish!
Has Diggit gone forever?


Thankfully Very Happy Very Happy Wink

Unfortunately, something worse has been put in its place.
PC
Philip Cobbold
Matthew Kelly probably appeared on the birthday show because he is in Birmingham at the moment appearing as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which is just across the road from Carlton studios.
TE
tesandco Founding member
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Does anyone have a capture of what this ident went like:


There were a few different variations of the same ident used between 1992 and 1998. There were ones with Just the letters C H I L D R E N S scrolling where that C is, with varying soundtracks. Later on the square used to become a cube, which then broke up, shrunk to a narrow cylinder, before disappearing into the sky (or vice versa on the way into CITV). They added a little character clinging to the end of it later. That was the version shown on the birthday programme.

Although I dont have the 3D cube version, I do have some of the earlier versions of it on my site

www.tvwhirl.co.uk/citv.html
ST
Still
Philip Cobbold posted:
Matthew Kelly probably appeared on the birthday show because he is in Birmingham at the moment appearing as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which is just across the road from Carlton studios.


Anyone who watched it were left in no doubt of that fact, believe me Smile
BH
BillyH Founding member
AJB posted:
[It can remember the voice-over man at the end of CiTV and porkie pig ran up a line of the end. Has anyone got a capture. I'd love to see it again.


I remember Porky's cameo at the end, although I could have sworn he was added in a few years after the cube animation premiered. Am I right?
TE
tesandco Founding member
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I remember Porky's cameo at the end, although I could have sworn he was added in a few years after the cube animation premiered. Am I right?


Yes, I'm pretty certain you are. The ident started out as pure 3d Rendered graphics and stayed like this for a while. They added the 2-d cut out characters later.
BB
Brekkie Boy
It was a brilliant programme yesterday - especially liked the look back at Saturday mornings on ITV when everyone else watched Going Live and Live and Kicking.

Also, top marks to ITV for not cropping the programme and showing it in all it's 4x3 glory.
BC
BlackCat Founding member
When was the cube version of the ident introduced? I remember it very vaguely...
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Andrew posted:
By the way, isn't it refreshing, all this positive comment towards an ITV Production, we should have more of this!

*cough* im sure you meant to say central production

its such a shame itv dont have the saturday morning programmes coming from around the country - remember nobby the sheep at tyne tees (was it called ghost train?), i distinctively remember some effort coming from TVS in maidstone (was niel buchanen on it?). i suppose the bbc still do it in some ways with rotating saturday mornings between london and glasgow. and didnt channel television produce a saturday morning strand called "s club tv" recently?
TE
tesandco Founding member
Tyne Tees did a lot of Saturday morning threads. In fact, it seems to be one of their biggest network contributions of recent times. They also IIRC produced Mashed. That was one of the rare places you got to see a 'Tyne Tees' only branded Endboard during the (Puts on bullet-proof vest) Channel 3 North East era.

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