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BE
benriggers
CBBC posted:
Does anybody here remember the yellow and black look from 1997? Personally, my favourite era of pres, and came with some funky end titles and end title music a couple of years later.


that was my era! Loved the idents & the end titles! I liked the remixed idents in 2001/02 as well! Shame it's not like it now.
RU
russnet Founding member
CBBC posted:
Does anybody here remember the yellow and black look from 1997? Personally, my favourite era of pres, and came with some funky end titles and end title music a couple of years later.


I hate that era, it looked all too basic to what came before. The only good ident to come out of that was one they tend to feature at the end of play featuring all those roadsigns coming towards you.

For me, this is the best in presentation, simple, effective and bold... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGke1AMi9A
JU
jumpinjack
CBBC posted:
Does anybody here remember the yellow and black look from 1997? Personally, my favourite era of pres, and came with some funky end titles and end title music a couple of years later.


I hate that era, it looked all too basic to what came before. The only good ident to come out of that was one they tend to feature at the end of play featuring all those roadsigns coming towards you.

For me, this is the best in presentation, simple, effective and bold... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGke1AMi9A


I agree, the yellow & black era was very limiting for childrens presentation, only having two colours soon got tired.
FA
fanoftv
CBBC posted:
Does anybody here remember the yellow and black look from 1997? Personally, my favourite era of pres, and came with some funky end titles and end title music a couple of years later.


I hate that era, it looked all too basic to what came before. The only good ident to come out of that was one they tend to feature at the end of play featuring all those roadsigns coming towards you.

For me, this is the best in presentation, simple, effective and bold... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGke1AMi9A


I agree, the yellow & black era was very limiting for childrens presentation, only having two colours soon got tired.


In a way I agree it did get tired, but they were quite imaginative in what they did create, from memory the only yellow era ident that didn't fit in with the theme was the Planet Saturday one which went for a totally different approach, and I suppose you could say the Christmas snowman & penguin for containing additional colours.

When looking back on things, they could have done with doing with the ident remix 12 months earlier, it added an extra life to designs, just a shame that it only lasted from Sept 2001 - Feb 2002.
Looking on youtube at the 94-97 idents, they were greatly designed, and even though all totally different, they fitted together well mainly down to the great logo that was in place, and the through the amazingly different but note tune defined soundtracks. They all brought memories flooding back, especially Saturday Aardvark.
Last edited by fanoftv on 6 June 2009 9:03pm
VM
VMPhil
The only good ident to come out of that was one they tend to feature at the end of play featuring all those roadsigns coming towards you.

This one?

http://philipb.host56.com/cbbchot1999credits.mp4
BE
Ben Founding member
I think the yellow and black era of CBBC was one of the worst.

The biggest problems for the designers was probably the renaming from Children's BBC to just CBBC and the strict logo guidelines at the time. I think they went for the yellow and black to make CBBC stand out from everything else, with the previous style they could use any colour and any animation technique so long as that distinctive Children's logo was visable but a Gill Sans C doesn't exactly stand out.

I think they stuck with it for far too long as well, it became so boring, so quickly. I actually think the only good ident to come from the set was the one designed by the viewer featuring the octopus spitting ink.

26 days later

TC
TCOTV
Dan & Jeff are no longer doing weekday afternoons. They have moved to summer mornings starting at 9:30am on Monday 6th July. Iain & Hacker will be presenting summer afternoons from Friday 3rd July at 3:20pm.

Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0egRrJg-24

P.S. Ed the duck was on CBBC today.
DB
dbl
The 1980's slow motion gag is funny
DA
David
Tom9 posted:

P.S. Ed the duck was on CBBC today.


Do you have a video of that? What was he doing?

16 days later

JB
JasonB
A plan of studio 9 is now on the BBC Studio's & post production site. It looks like a decent size studio,
http://www.bbcstudiosandpostproduction.com/studios/studio/design/studio9_design.pdf
JO
John
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/21/cbbc.shtml
Yet another person with limited BBC Children's experience becomes Controller of CBBC and another former head of daytime on his way up the BBC career ladder via Childrens.

According to Broadcast:
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/kavanagh-named-cbbc-chief/5003744.article
he got the job over Executive Producer of News Entertainment and Factual and former head of Nickelodeon (founder producer of Blue Peter Friday edition) Joe Godwin and Steven Andrew head of drama.

Complete madness. Why not employ somebody in the role with a solid Children’s television background?
NT
NorthTonight
John posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/21/cbbc.shtml
Yet another person with limited BBC Children's experience becomes Controller of CBBC and another former head of daytime on his way up the BBC career ladder via Childrens.

According to Broadcast:
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/kavanagh-named-cbbc-chief/5003744.article
he got the job over Executive Producer of News Entertainment and Factual and former head of Nickelodeon (founder producer of Blue Peter Friday edition) Joe Godwin and Steven Andrew head of drama.

Complete madness. Why not employ somebody in the role with a solid Children’s television background?


Think I might apply. I've no television experience within children's programmes. Hang on - I've no experiece whatsoever. Mind you I work with children. Probably overqualified... Wink

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