14-04-2023, 08:07 AM
(13-04-2023, 08:36 PM)DTV Wrote: I'm not sure if this was mentioned last year, but it does sort of tie into recent discussions about recreating the 2008 graphics, but is the opening shot of the 2022-version of the title sequence not already a recreation? I just noticed earlier that the two cities that are given prominence in the cats cradle of the first shot are London and Edinburgh, where as they used to be Beijing and Madrid (or Johannesburg and Nairobi on the World version). Comparing like-for-like, it also appears there are some other minor changes to the shot (the 'sunray' etching is gone and the cats cradle changes colour depending on background) suggesting it was remade.
I can understand why only that shot was redone - it is less complex than the later remaining ones and the shot that 'featured' London and Edinburgh was removed (though it was already cut from the Ten title sequence). Little surprising, though, that they didn't take the opportunity to add Belfast and Cardiff to the cats cradle.
As I understand it, the World News versions of the titles, always used more international place names, rather than more prominence for UK ones.
I had not paid enough attention to the new version to notice the lack of sun ray shimmer lines. I can understand wanting to simplify, and remove an effect that may appear as graphical issues with bitrates online. But I have no knowledge of how the new titles were made.
Did Lambie-Nairn provide the original layered assets and they just composited them differently?
Did they re-create them from scratch?
If they did re-create, why did the placenames not move to Reith, or the end shot changed to not be right aligned?