Author: John Beohm

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ABC1 Videos: Broadcast News Videos: Openings

Live from the Nations Capital

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The ABC changed its news opener and theme on Australia Day this year along with new sets and wide screen broadcasting for the bulletin. Given the ten months I’ve now had to digest it, I’d have to say I like it a lot more then I did then, I think the opener is pretty cool, I like how the city names appear and fade as the “ABCNews” banner covers the globe, and while the music isn’t as dramatic as the old theme its not the travesty I probably once thought it was (on a side note, Triple J’s remix of the old news theme remains my ringtone).

I think Virginia Hausegger does an excellent job, and with only Win News to compete with locally she doesn’t have much competition.

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And now for something slightly different, this footage is the ABC news opener without any actual news items or voice overs.

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ABC1 Videos: Promos

Completely Pointless

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Well I had my last exam today, and all going to plan I’ll graduate in Decemeber. So what better way to celebrate then with Clarke and Dawe from the 7.30 Report deconstructing their promo and pointing out how the whole thing is “completely pointless”…

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Channel 4 Videos: Idents

UK: Some 4’s

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4cars

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For some reason I thought I’d already posted these, but apparently I hadn’t, still got more UK stuff to come, I really liked 4 while I was in the UK, the idents and the channel… can you spot the Mercedes? Enjoy.

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ABC1 Videos: Idents

Australian perspective on the world

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ABC Asia Pacific is the international sibling of everyones favourite national broadcaster, and is available in over 9 million homes in 40 countries. This video has a real “promotional” feel to it with the testimonials and all, but the graphics of the ‘everyones’ and red globe (although very BBCesque) are really cool.

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SBS Videos: Idents

Drop SBS

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I haven’t seen a new one of these in ages, I love the SBS water idents, and as far as a series of Australian idents go these are absolutely my favourite.

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ABC1 Videos: Idents

And the winner is..

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The Promax&BDA awards were held last month and the winner for best ‘Television Image Campaign’ was the ABC with its Anzac day idents. The Anzac day idents are probably the best I’ve seen from the ABC, I didn’t get a chance to record them on the actual day buy luckily I got my hands on this.

For a full run down of the winners click here.

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BBC Two Videos: Idents

UK: BBC Two ‘Remote’

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The makers of these idents have managed to give this mute “2” character such a personality of its own, I love it how it makes you aware of its surrondings, like by hitting the camera, or picking up the BBC logo.

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Nine Network Videos: Idents

Same stuff, different colour

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Just the yellow/amber variation of the purple ident you’ve already seen. I’m not a fan of these and this post is really just a segway for me to direct you to an article from Crikey about a possible rebrand at Channel Nine.

There’s a couple of suggestions from the Willoughby bunker that Nine may be losing the famous dotty Nine logo of the Network

Read the article here.

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BBC One Videos: Idents

UK: BBC One ‘Dock’

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> RealPlayer Stream: SE Varient (604kb) (Thanks again Martin)

I just love BBC One idents, and this is no exception. The first link is for the ident I captured while I was in the UK, and the second is slightly longer version, and is the BBC South East varient.

BBC One is also apparently planning to ditch its current idents for a new set of promos some time in the future, should be interesting to see what they come up with. The Guardian also had an interesting rant about how idents are a waste of money.

Who or what will now replace them? Who cares? Only one thing is certain: a very large sum of money will be spent to provide something new which we could all quite easily live without, something which, you can be sure, will be scrapped after a year or so.

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Channel Five Seven Network Videos: Idents

Crime time on Prime, Seven.. and Five?

I was recording Prime tonight, and as I flicked through the ads I noticed this promo for “Crime Prime Time Wednesday” that looked amazingly similar to a crime promo I saw while I was in the UK for Channel Five.

I hadn’t recorded a copy while I was in London but I did find footage online at The TV Room. If you compare the two you quickly realise they use the exact same footage. I’m going to assume Channel Five created the footage originally, it’s just weird that they would sell it to another network to use, well that or Seven stole it.

> RealPlayer Stream: Prime Promo (1.7mb)
> RealPlayer Stream: Five Promo (900kb) (Via TV Room)