[MOCK] Granada - The World Tomorrow (is Widescreen)

This is the title sequence from one of Granada's numerous paralysingly dull ITA pleasing documentary series that it made solely to protect its licence to print money. The only thing interesting here is the ident, which proudly proclaimed it was "From round the Globe". Which, in Granada's case, probably meant the pub in Bury.

The whole thing was animated from scratch in Synfig Studio and Inkscape and filmised and cobbled together in Kdenlive using a bit of source video kindly sent to me by Rory Clark as a reference. As Brian Trueman would say: "I do hope you will enjoy it". But that's only because I've been working on it earlier today...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Granada
• Granada Television
• television
• dipole
• ident
• titles
• The World Tomorrow
• 60s
• ITV
• mock
• from the North
• Synfig
• Inkscape
• Synfig Studio
• Dave Jeffery
• recreation

[bigaspidistra]

I have to draw breath at the Brian Trueman remark ...

[stupidrubbish]

@bigaspidistra I've heard some off-air recordings of Brian doing in-vision continuity for Granada and that's precisely what he says.

[RAX118G]

Love the customised film leader. The live action bit is slightly worrying though. I know it's only a wobbly shot taken with your camera but that and the panicky soundtrack makes me think of it as a World in Action Special with the Granada team trying to outrun Pol Pot - or even worse, Lord Hill.

[stupidrubbish]

@RAX118G I know, it's really rough! I was actually tempted to use the shot of TG in a train carriage at the end instead. I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed of the fact it took me the best part of three hours to hand animate the Granada boxes flipping which spends just 16 frames (just over half a second!) on screen.

[bigaspidistra]

@stupidrubbish Yes I spent hours on that specific piece of continuity in 2000 trying to restore the audio to be a little clearer & every word is burnt into memory even now as I heard it 1000+ times. The root problem though is he speaks far too fast possibly because he doesn't have enough time for what he wants to say.