BBC News Regions - Victoria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwnexFhoaPc

If the ABC and a joint venture with the BBC, and the BBC was allowed to keep their theme, along with BBC News, this is what my "region" would look like from the 1999 perspective.

*As you may notice, it's still work in progress. If you have any tips on additional effect that operate for After Effects CS5, and it should be included, feel free to post or PM.

It's not too bad actually. I'd say place names are the next step and perhaps a different gradient on the map itself. There should be additional transmission rings too.

Okay, you need to do lots of place names that fade in places and decode and reencode, set that to an overlay transfer. Then lots of round Tx rings appearing on the map.

Good start though. I believe South East Today made it's first title sequence internally without the template from Lambie Nairn, so if they can do it, you can.

The small rings are easy to do, but the Text is harder. There are two plausible ways to do it.

#1, Put forward by Mike W
Create a Text layer, and add the decode effect and it spins through the entire Unicode character set. Quick and easy, but it doesn't exactly match the theme, where the character displace one position to the left and spin though the given charatcer set

#2,
Create a precomp where every frame has a loop of each text.
Frame 1 would say; VICTORIA
Frame 2 would say; ICTORIAV
Frame 3; CTORIAVI
etc,
I takes longer, but you get something closer to the style

The main hassle is that some text sits in the background rotating thought the text in a grid, and lines and columns have lighting to it. Take for example the BBC World Ident and 10 Second Countdown;


The BBC World Ident, well a single frame. [May help to watch the Ident]

On the ident, WORLD is rotating its character positions to the left, with lighting effecting a couple of rows


BBC World 10 Second Countdown, Number 5


BBC World 10 Second Countdown, Number 0

As you can see, There are two text elements to the Coundown, "WORLD" and the numbers
The same effect applies to this in terms of lighting

How is this possible in After Effects CS5?

Couple of more things: You need the national map, maybe ramped to black on one side, set that to overlay, bevel the edges, and match the region's map up with it in the last frame. Also repeat the region map within the region map, if that makes sense, try and make the edges catch the light (can't think of an effect for that TBH)

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BxQZRlbdU#t=0m27s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk7WsLxPRrQ

An Updated Version... Can you spot the differences.
I do appriciate the comments, and I'm doing my best during my spare time to make it parallel to the theme

There are smaller Tx rings that point out key places, for example, on Midlands Todays they appear where Stoke, Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Pershore and Hereford are.

One simple tip for the AE file, turn the layers and comp motion blur on, you'll be amazed at how much better it'll look with a little blur.

Yeah I should have. I won't be able to work on it for a long time as I'm starting my last year of High School.
Wish me luck!!