bit of a WIP for a proper-relaunched BBC News - supers, and opening titles are on the way, but here are the closing titles to start off with, in BBC Chameleon style!
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The opener used in the bulletin with Hamish was fantastic. Feel sorry for all the producers working in the dark newsroom tho
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Would pay to see a news organisation use that as its intro. 
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Definitely TV3
isn’t that more of a tongue in cheek mock?
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Yeah @moderators shouldn’t it be moved?
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A “New” take on an old logo. As the current logo appears as NEWFM 105.3, I have decided to remove the “FM” from the title, as we all know it’s an FM station from the frequency!
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do we? never heard of this in my life! 
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@OnAir When Shakedown on TV3 (now Three) ended in mid-1991, Great Pacific Entertainment (an independent production house run by the Wrightson family) took over the production of Pepsi RTR Sounz! and Pepsi RTR Countdown from TVNZ.
They also produced Pepsi RTR Top 40 as a Saturday morning replacement for RTR Sounz!, which was transferred to 9am on a non-commercial Sunday morning and extended to two hours in duration, but the timeslot for RTR Countdown (Saturdays at 6pm) stayed exactly the same.
Back in my day I saw the original Great Pacific Entertainment logo/endcap (which was shown at the end of the Pepsi RTR shows since the company took over production) via VHS recordings as a youngster; however, there are no signs of the logo via YouTube at the moment, so I created a mock endcap. It looks similar to the original.
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bit of a draft of a new BBC News title sequence - I was inspired by @Medianext.MX with using the imagery from the BBC News online in the title sequence, but I decided to use it more as a timeline - the top story that was either on the NC, or the News website throughout every hour, in the animation, it would move across the hours, and then transition into the News logo, and eventually the studio pan shot. More to come soon including supers, and hopefully an animated version - thoughts?
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I like it. Love the idea of dropping “FM”, as it’d also sound better going against Hit106.9 (New vs. Hit).
What if NEW & 105.3 were all on the same line, but still keeping the blue and white colour?
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Liking both the storyboard of the opener and the closer you made; however, I will suggest you make the animations a bit smoother and less faster; additionally, when the BBC logo appears, there is some misalignment, so some work to do. But it looks quite promising and certainly something to follow.
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Quite a nice idea! I can imagine the blocks animate more like their Centennial idents, instead of the app animation though.
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The timeline looks like Sky News
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love it! be great to see how it would animate.
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Some weird thoughts about this sequence: The timeline can be used as a breakfiller as well!
1: Label it with years instead of time, and it can be a return of the This Week in History segment back in mid-2000s, this time actually capable of describing a week of historical events as it scrolls through.
2: Change the exact time, and you get a timeline for brief follow-ups of developing events, just like how they do it on their website.
Probably a bit more interesting and informative than the countdown…
Staying with BBC News, what if they centred the rings animation in the new Context open?
The underline is based on some of their new promos, rather than their promo endboards.
Also made a boxed one for better readability, this time modelling more from Newsround instead.
Back to my own vision of the graphics, I was inspired by the new CBS News’ local graphics, specifically neatly tucking the live weather map with the supers in and out of weather forecasts when a severe condition’s coming.
Perhaps this style can also be used in live coverages with two locations, with a shortened headline super and a little PIP box in the corner, rather than overlapping the two footages?
The boxed alternative, keeping a consistent style, but I think the PIP may shrinks a bit too small because of it. What do you think?
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Good ideas! I’ve been thinking about the countdown too, but just bringing back the menu from the 1999-03 News 24 days, but then realised that it’s not possible. I do miss the older-style breakfillers though - specifically the 1999-03 World one.
I prefer your Context titles to the official ones - I have to agree with you and hope their obsession with cornered graphics end soon…
I do like your graphics, but can’t help but feel the main headline strap is unreadable in some situations.
I’ve played around with some graphics myself (and thanks to @Biscuit45 for his opinions on it too <3), thoughts?
(two variants of breaking L3’s, because can’t decide how I want the gradient)
(same here during shows, because can’t decide how I want the gradient)
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I prefer the one without the box, I think you are right in that the box makes it look smaller.
On another note, I am not a big fan of the lower third graphics. By not having a background on the super, it makes the red text very difficult to read as it blends too much into the background. The same looks to be happening with the location super in the top corner.
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Thanks @MichaelPower and @TheChewyApple - yes, seems like the outlined box has this fatal flaw. The V1 of these actually had a semi-transparent black background behind the box, but that was a pain in the rear to put consistently in every scenarios and match the boxes, so I decided to drop it in V2…
I’m thinking of fusing the gradient background as the backdrop, looking something like this:
Ties up the Live tag neatly with the style as well^^
Fun fact: This isn’t the direct adaptation of the Chameleon backdrop - I came up with a flatter gradient when BBC Sport debuted new graphics, based on the one used by Bloomberg:
Probably deviates a little from my original pitch, but have at me.
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