New designs for the BBC

Hi everyone.

Firstly I just want to ask that you don't go and write this mock off as a failure straight away just because it's made by me. If it is actually bad (I should hope not though, because I'm actually quite proud of my work) then go ahead and tell me - but let me know how I can improve them.

For this mock I wanted to integrate the BBC blocks into the designs of the endboards a bit more. The first two blocks act as windows into the programme being promoted - for example, carrying on a set of videos used to promote Holby City.

Designs





An endboard used for a trailer promoting Holby City. The idea is that the two blocks in the corner (see first picture) would expand into the middle of the screen, with another opaque white block and red background fading in quite quickly, leaving the video to only be seen through the two leftmost boxes. They would then stay there until the end of the trailer.



A BBC Two endboard for Dragon's Den. It's a very similar concept here. The pattern in the background was put there to make the endboards seem less generic.



A mock DOG placement. The DOG and extra information (see the hashtag in the corner) are at 36% opacity and would fade out/in as necessary.

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So that's all the designs I have done for now. Feel free to let me know what you think.
Oh, and this wasn't made in PowerPoint - my first mock in Photoshop

- George

Very reminiscent of Channel 4's 1999 squares look. Good effort though, I quite like these.

Only problem is the right hand DOG in the last image. You'd have to have the BBC logo feature somehow, it just looks odd without it.

I think these would look great on a big HD screen, but probably wouldn't be as legible on a smaller screen in SD, especially the Family Guy hashtag.

Simple but nice, but the hashtag and BBC Three DOG don't appear to be in the 16:9 title safe area.

Thanks, I'll make sure to keep the BBC logo with the channel names in future.



I agree that the hashtag would be too small looking back on the designs. Do you think the endboards would just need a thicker font, or would they just need to be larger?



Of course, I completely forgot that you need things at least in the 16:9 area, I just plopped it right outside.

I think the font size would probably have to be increased. Just imagine viewing it on a smaller screen with SD compression - I can't imagine it would be too legible. A good example is Sky News on Freeview.

Good start, this is only a small variety of presentation throughout the BBC.

I think the weblink and ‘NEW’ ‘BBC One’ boxes on the Holby City promo are too small, and would be unreadable on little televisions, in my opinion.

I think the BBC One etc. should be added to the endboard of the promos as well.

Ooo, I like!

It's actually quite refreshing tbh.

The boxes are good promotion slides. But you'll need to create new logos to go along side them. That's my opinion.

I like these alot, but I feel using two boxes for one image may not always work, specifically with group shots.

Okay, so I've taken what you've said into account, and made a couple new designs.

1. Endboard V2



This design has translucent blocks on top of the video. I actually prefer this one because you can use any VT underneath the text, and it also contains the logo.

2. Endboard V1 Changed



Just a larger weblink.

3. Loss in Programming

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This was really just the result of experimenting .

- George