Rediffusion London - 1969 color ident (Mock)

Updating my original still-frame mock of a "What If?" ident for the defunct ITV company Rediffusion London, which in real life lost its London weekday contract in the 1968 franchise auction.

This is the mock as I had originally envisioned it; animated, with a jingle (lifted verbatim from the last "real" Rediffusion ident), and properly aged with film effects. The whole thing was done in Inkscape frame-by-frame, with ImageMagick used to tie the frames together as an animation, ffmpeg to turn the animation into an AVI, and OpenShot for final assembly (including laying down the audio track).

I hope fans of British TV presentation and mock idents in general enjoy this... I tried to make it look as authentic as possible, and I personally think I succeeded, but in the end YouTube will have to be the judge...

Associated-Rediffusion Television (of which the onscreen identity "Rediffusion London" was a derivative) and the adastral symbol are copyrighted by Victor Lewis-Smith. I make no claim of ownership on any of them; this is merely a tribute, and one man's vision of "what might have been" had history turned out a bit differently.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rediffusion
• London
• ITV
• mock
• ident