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New Channel 4 Ident

(April 2006)

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BR
Brekkie
Well, they can cut in at whichever point they want.
CY
cylon6
Now that is very clever! Love it!!

It actually makes BBC2's idents look very staid and dull in comparison.
MI
Michael
I'm sure I've seen that Stage one before........it seems very familiar from somewhere.....it may not be a new ident, maybe just a rare one.

The harbour one sounds new though.
PC
Paul Clark
No sign of any of the new idents since last night's two-in-a-row spotting.

Assuming they were actually meant to be shown last night, I don't know what their use is for. The City/New York and Bowling idents are getting overplayed IMO; it would be nice if they evened out the choices a little more, and show a rare ident at least once every 2 days (I think the only time you can *guarantee* seeing Alien, for example, is before alien-related programmes - other sightings are rare [ but then, aren't all alien sightings rare! Wink ])

Re: BBC TWO, despite the number of ident variants which I assume is considerably greater than C4, it really is time they came up with a whole new look; I hear of no plans for a revamp though, so we may be kept waiting for some time.
AL
alisterj
i think they may show the stage ident before the carling live 24 event later on tonight
PC
Paul Clark
alisterj posted:
i think they may show the stage ident before the carling live 24 event later on tonight


fanoftv already mentioned this...and it wasn't the case.
AL
alisterj
yeah i know ,

i dont know what channel 4 are up to, i was quite looking forward to seeing a few more idents around now Sad
BS
brotherton sands


Is the "4" actually real for a change?

Obviously, in most/all of the original set of idents, computer jiggery-pokery makes the "4" - unless, say, bales of hay or New York buildings (etc) actually float in the sky!

But, a "4" made out of speakers, lighting rigs, etc is physically possible. So, did they actually make the "4" for real physically, rather than just with post-production trickery?

EDIT: I've not seen the ident in action, only the stills above. But, on closer examination, I get the impression that the objects are moving without the aid of people, and that some of the spaekers are floating in front of the stage, rather than on it.

So, that rather rules out the idea of it being physically real then... Embarassed
M
M@ Founding member
I love how the bottom right hand block is on a moving buggy. Very clever.
AS
Asa Admin
Well I've had chance to catch a few junctions and had no luck seeing either of them so I guess they weren't meant to be played? Thanks to Lee though for grabbing one of them otherwise we'd have no idea.

Seems the series was known as the "Atlas Project" with 15 idents (of which 10 have now been seen?)
PC
Paul Clark
Asa posted:
Well I've had chance to catch a few junctions and had no luck seeing either of them so I guess they weren't meant to be played?


It seems that way, but then I haven't seen Alien in a while (2 - 3 days on the trot checking most of the junctions and no sign of it) and that's definitely part of the current set, so the Stage and Harbour might just be extremely rare. You may be right though, there's just no sure way of telling.

It does seem odd that the one time the 2 idents in question were sighted, they were used in consecutive junctions.
BE
Ben Founding member
Paul Clark posted:
Asa posted:
Well I've had chance to catch a few junctions and had no luck seeing either of them so I guess they weren't meant to be played?


It seems that way, but then I haven't seen Alien in a while (2 - 3 days on the trot checking most of the junctions and no sign of it) and that's definitely part of the current set, so the Stage and Harbour might just be extremely rare. You may be right though, there's just no sure way of telling.

It does seem odd that the one time the 2 idents in question were sighted, they were used in consecutive junctions.


I've seen the Alien ident on a couple of occassions recently. I wonder if the plan was to debut these idents consecutivly between both episodes of lost tomorrow.

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