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IT
itsrobert Founding member
Big Brother posted:
The N24 countdown just doesn't fit in with the channel I say. They need to go back to the old style.

If they did go back they could come up with some rather fab animations using the current theme.

Should get some mock people on the go, although making those 3D Swirly shapes isn't all that easy I suppose.

Oh and World's countdown, it''s not the most amazing piece of work I've seen, it is a bit slow and boring but then it's not shown for a huge amount of time. (I don't get the last bit when it changes to show BBC WORLD - seems a bit pointless to me.)


The idea of the last 3 seconds of the World countdown is that it transforms into the channel symbol. So it's a bit like the original 2000 countdown which led into a symbol before the news.
BB
Big Brother Founding member
Yeah I still don't get it. Seems a rather pointless addition to it To be fair tho every ident and graphic is in some form branded BBC WORLD style that it's really not needed.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Big Brother posted:
Yeah I still don't get it. Seems a rather pointless addition to it To be fair tho every ident and graphic is in some form branded BBC WORLD style that it's really not needed.


I suppose it's just a gimmick. After all, when the countdown is playing, there is actually no DOG on the screen - they remove it completely for it, so I suppose they wanted it to end with some kind of logo. I think it's quite a neat transformation. It would have been nice if they'd perhaps kept the transformation, but also kept the clock counting down to '00' rather than just having it disappear with three seconds to go.

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