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(June 2008)

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BB
bbc140
Just seen the Euro 2008 BBC titles - rather nice!

Feature's football players (5 of them) on 'football' cards in a card theatre. Music is a bit - well I'm not keen on it.

Will try and get some caps.

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YE
yellow_hello
Just saw a proper BBC One trailer for a Euro 2008 match for the first time. They nicely promoted BBC HD and Radio 5live with some jazzy animation, but interestingly the typeface was Gill Sans...!
Is this part of the BBC's Euro 2008 branding or are they coming over all corporate? (Or both!)

yellow.
AN
Andrew Founding member
The ITV Euro 2008 is quite good with a bit of humour. I don't really think much of the BBC's trailer.

The schedules are as we would expect except that ITV's highlights programme, which would generally be shown every night when BBC1 has the 7.45pm kick off, is being shown on ITV4 this year
BR
Brekkie
Same here - I think the ITV one is very good, though I haven't seen the variations of it there's supposed to be in Wales, Scotland and NI. Don't know if that's one non-English variant, or if they've made specific ones for each country.

The BBC is pretty poor and unimaginative really.
DB
dbl
yellow_hello posted:
Just saw a proper BBC One trailer for a Euro 2008 match for the first time. They nicely promoted BBC HD and Radio 5live with some jazzy animation, but interestingly the typeface was Gill Sans...!
Is this part of the BBC's Euro 2008 branding or are they coming over all corporate? (Or both!)

yellow.

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M
M@ Founding member
The BBC titles have been released and are available to watch on MediaGuardian. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/jun/04/bbc.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media).

Great graphics, but the music is preposterous!
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Andrew posted:
The ITV Euro 2008 is quite good with a bit of humour. I don't really think much of the BBC's trailer.

The schedules are as we would expect except that ITV's highlights programme, which would generally be shown every night when BBC1 has the 7.45pm kick off, is being shown on ITV4 this year


Hmm, although the ITV trailer actually makes no sense. It's message seems to be that if you're feeling deflated by the absence of the home nations in the competition, you'll feel better because Euro 2008 is on ?

Makes no sense.

BBC titles look good, music awful. ITV have gone for an operatic theme with Natasha Marsh's rendition of Mozart's "Queen of the Night".
MA
madmusician
The music in the BBC titles is growing on me, I must admit, and I like the remix (never thought I'd say that either). They've not modernised it stupidly, and it still sounds like an orchestra playing. I like the concept of the BBC titles too - after initially feeling deflated by the whole thing, I now find it very clever and well put together.
PA
paul_hadley
M@ posted:
The BBC titles have been released and are available to watch on MediaGuardian. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/jun/04/bbc.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media).

Great graphics, but the music is preposterous!

Very nice. Smile
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Brekkie
I don't think the BBC titles are anything special really - they've had far better in the past.
PA
paul_hadley
They were made by Aardmann. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/04/bbc.television
DJ
DJGM
Square Eyes posted:

Hmm, although the ITV trailer actually makes no sense. It's message seems to be that if you're feeling deflated
by the absence of the home nations in the competition, you'll feel better because Euro 2008 is on ?

Makes no sense.


And since none of Home Nations teams qualified for the tournament, it makes no sense for it to be wasting airtime on
the flagship channels BBC One and ITV1. The live coverage ought to be shown on BBC Three and ITV4 respectively,

Much like the African Cup of Nations (which goes out on BBC Three) Euro 2008 is essentially a foreign event.

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