The Gallery Design Challenge 3

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DrewF 24 June 2011 9:30pm

So have you set the bar a little too high Bail - it's a great idea, but not sure anyone knows where to start. Perhaps making it more specific would be an idea?

A concept here rather than an actual mock, and nothing that we haven't seen before around the world, but I think with ECPs now the norm it is time the UK adopted a more US style credit sequence, with a short actual close with Executive Producer credits before the full credits follow, along with a promo. That would stop announcers and promos crashing in immediately as the credit roles before you have a chance to take in the last scene - just those few seconds away from the action would make the ECPs less intrusive.

Yep, I've always wondered why no UK channel has attempted to adopt the US "accelerated flow" concept - trailers over credits, and then straight on to an ident and in to the next programme. US networks use it as it keeps viewers rather than losing them in a commercial break.

Dave have started doing something similar - moving the ad break so that it's about five minutes before the program ends, so one program can lead straight to the next with no ads.

BR

Brekkie 25 June 2011 3:11pm

Channels do use it more and more, especially for launching new shows, but agree it's surprising it hasn't become more common place.

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Chie 26 June 2011 2:44am

I would repair BBC One, repositioning programmes as the main focus of the viewer's attention rather than the channel itself because I feel the programmes are getting lost amid a sea of really overbearing channel branding.

Trailers would end on a carefully chosen scene overlayed with the title, time and day of transmission. No logo. Viewers would know they were watching BBC 1 (the channel has been renamed) because the announcer would intimate the name of the channel at the end of the trailer. If you really want to know which channel you're watching, wait till the end of the trailer. Guaranteed way to keep the viewers watching. Coming Soon trailers are forbidden.

Programme menus would be kept simple, with the day at the top and a left-aligned menu of programmes prefixed with the time of transmission underneath. Menus feature the BBC 1 logo on the menu itself but not the clips that precede it. Menus for Friday and Saturday night would have a fun, upbeat theme. Example one; example two; example three.

The channel logo features in the ident but it's not the central focus. To save on costs there is only one ident. It works because BBC 1, one ident. Christmas idents would be Christmassy and the only people allowed to appear in them are Santa Claus, children and parents. No more self-eulogising Doctor Who nonsense and no vignettes of people going round to their mate's house dressed as a robin to get drunk.

I think that covers everything.

BA

Bail Moderator 26 June 2011 3:27am

I've always been keen on the 'choose your ending' style YouTube videos that sometimes pop up. With more and more televisions being Internet enabled and sets themselves being more technically capable I would love for a truly interactive show. Where rather than just a separate feed or audio a number of alternate sequences and choices are filmed and the viewer can very much be part of an adventure..

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newsatten 28 June 2011 2:30pm

Have there actually been any entries for this months challenge? When does it end anyway - 30th June?

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dosxuk 25 July 2011 11:13pm

Are we going to get a new challenge for August?

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Identity 25 July 2011 11:53pm

I don't think anyone is gonna enter this challege, can we just have the new one now

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edmund 29 July 2011 7:40pm

tvmocker14 posted:

I don't think anyone is gonna enter this challege, can we just have the new one now

I entered the June challenge, it was not added as a contestant on this page for some reason, bit of a waste of time.

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Identity 11 August 2011 4:13pm

Can we have a new one now?

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Critique 11 August 2011 5:57pm

tvmocker14 posted:

Can we have a new one now?

Can we have an end to you pining for a new challenge7 It's not like Bail is going to *magically* appear and go, 'Why yes, Mr Less-than-100-posts-and-already-making-demands, a new challenge has been thrust upon you, and to make it easier, you've already won it'...

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Michael 19 August 2011 3:37pm

Brekkie posted:

A concept here rather than an actual mock, and nothing that we haven't seen before around the world, but I think with ECPs now the norm it is time the UK adopted a more US style credit sequence, with a short actual close with Executive Producer credits before the full credits follow, along with a promo. That would stop announcers and promos crashing in immediately as the credit roles before you have a chance to take in the last scene - just those few seconds away from the action would make the ECPs less intrusive.

Sky One used to do that with Star Trek. Nothing new.

How about I set a REAL Gallery Mock Design Challenge? I challenge the schoolkids amongst us who have nothing better to do: you have to make a mock that has NOTHING to do with Daybreak.

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Pete Founding member 19 August 2011 3:42pm

Michael posted:

How about I set a REAL Gallery Mock Design Challenge? I challenge the schoolkids amongst us who have nothing better to do: you have to make a mock that has NOTHING to do with Daybreak.

Don't be ridiculous

(June 2011)