Intro Sequence

For the intro sequence I wanted to use a traditional news graphic and jingle. The main graphic I used was the earth. I created this by using the line tool to trace around a map of the earth and then using a UVW map to make it spherical. The main idea behind the into was to get as many pictures of Essex in the scene as possible. In my original sketches I imagined the pictures roiling in from the sides with the main title. There also needed to be a background with a colour that wasn't to overpowering and if possible matched my red, white and blue theme.

Once I had found the background and all my pictures I needed to place them into the scene and start to animate them by moving across the screen. Once I did this it occurred to me that the earth turning with the pictures would work well. And finally I linked the main title to the world so it revolved with it. Which I thought was a nice touch.

The sound was next and I needed to find a good 'news' sounding jingle. I found this on the Internet at audiomicro.com/free_anchor_man_sound_clip. All I needed to do was to crop and fade out the volume in Soundbooth so it fit my scene. Lastly I had a total after thought of having a cheesy talk-over guy introducing the presenters. I didn't want to use my real name so I made up a couple of comedy names. Joe King and Hazel Nutz! (It's not funny I know). I not sure if this quite works because of the quality isn't that good but I left it in anyway.