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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Newsroom - 01-03-2023

(01-03-2023, 12:42 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  

(01-03-2023, 11:19 AM)Matrix Wrote:  One of the wonderful things about the Balloon was that it was, originally, designed for exactly this thing. During the initial design phase, one of the ideas was that the balloon would be used at major sporting events etc to fly over, creating a link between the design element and actual events (bringing the brand to life, long before that was the 'phrase du jour'.

Indeed, Martin Lambie-Nairn once spoke about it as you can see on my blog: https://vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/bbc-one-balloon-returns-to-the-skies/ 

Thanks so much for posting this! Super interesting watch!

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Stuart - 01-03-2023

(01-03-2023, 12:42 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  Indeed, Martin Lambie-Nairn once spoke about it as you can see on my blog: https://vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/bbc-one-balloon-returns-to-the-skies/ 

Thanks for posting. I have seen the video before, but it's always fascinating to watch as MLN was such a talented guy and he explained the design thought processes very well.

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Clean Feed - 01-03-2023

This evening's edition of Points West reported on the rediscovery of the BBC One balloon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiBp8HrJlA 

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - JamieD - 01-03-2023

Yes, it seems I overinterpreted the original Facebook posts and got a bit overexcited in my original post – in that they haven't actually inflated the balloon yet to see what condition it is in!

It seems they are inflating it this weekend in a field to see what's what.

I guess time will tell to see if it will just be tethered at events or make it back up into the air for proper flights. Fingers crossed!

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - rick - 01-03-2023

Oh dear... that doesn't look right... and this was an ident?

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - VMPhil - 01-03-2023

It's a regional ident so I'm not surprised it doesn't look quite right

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Tola - 02-03-2023

BBC News report on the balloon coming back:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-64811223 
This also includes information on its origins, which I don't think have been documented before, at least to my knowledge.

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Worzel - 03-03-2023

There's a bit of a discrepancy here...

Quote:'Mark Lockwood was the creative director at Virgin Airship and Balloon Company and flew the balloon at different places across the UK to film the idents for four months in 1997.

A lot of people thought it was computer generated, but it wasn't.

Every shot was absolutely taken on location and the agency selected the shots they wanted', he said.

I seem to recall in one of Martin Lambie-Nairn's talks he said for a few of the idents, they did computer generate the balloon (the live action ones such as the football players) as they couldn't get it to fly in the right direction.

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - VMPhil - 03-03-2023

The initial launch idents and stings were real, it was the later additions, the “lifestyle” idents that featured people, that had a CG balloon.

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RE: BBC One Balloon To Fly Once Again - Mike - 03-03-2023

(01-03-2023, 09:04 PM)rick Wrote:  Oh dear... that doesn't look right... and this was an ident?

This doesn’t look original - it’s 16:9 for a start and Bristol wasn’t at the time, and the other archival footage shown wasn’t that bad, maybe it was a hastily thrown together mock.

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