BBC News presentation
[3] The walls of this newsroom were decorated with panels featuring the bold colours and shapes such as stars, semicircles and numerous lines seen in the idents.
[10][11] The ident designed featured a cream background with red pulsating rings and scenes; throughout the idents, place names would appear as anagrams and systematically flick through letters to form the place name, while a map of the UK could be seen at the beginning of the sequence and various styles of clock faces could be seen in the red ellipse with the hands passing a '24' mark on the clock face.
[10][11] The sequence ended with a large white '24' seen from the front left against a red ellipse on a cream background with the one-line BBC News logo overlaid the numeral in the centre of the screen.
[16][17][24][26] The remainder of the aston featured a red heading with black information box with white text with no specific colour used for breaking news.
The studio was split into three sections to allow a more flexible presentation style;[18] the middle section contained the main desk and flanked by two screens behind the desk to the left and right;[9] the left hand segment featured a small round standing studio for delivering headlines and news roundups while the right hand segment featured a round standing set with a screen behind, usually used for sports, business and in depth review.
The new sequence showed the elements involved in bringing news to the air, including footage of BBC journalists, cameramen and production staff around the UK and the world.
A red translucent bar extended from the left hand side of the screen containing the countdown clock featuring the seconds and marking every frame (PAL timecode).
The new ident began with a close up of the rotating red and black globe over Europe, South Asia and Australia while the strands of news seen in the countdown circle the world.
[34] The headline itself was contained within an opaque dark red stripe crossing the entire picture, while the further information was added below in a translucent black section.
In the current look, the red globe is used only at the beginning of bulletins themselves whereas the sting is to identify the channel or to introduce news related programming into the schedule, such as Click.
[37][39][40][41] Promotions for the channel used a similar style to that used previously, with the BBC News box logo appearing in the bottom left corner of the screen throughout, with end boards frequently over the white globe background.
The countdown still featured journalists and production crew filming the reports, with the red News beams still seen being broadcast from transmitters and satellite dishes.
Text is generally larger, notably with headlines, with containing boxes strongly contrasting with the background, taking up more space on the screen, something that has drawn criticism for often obscuring the content behind.
In case of UK-specific breaking news, the channel opts out after a report has finished being played and the breaking news coverage comes from green-screened Studio A. BBC Parliament took over from the cable-only Parliamentary Channel on 23 September 1998, transmitting sessions of the House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament, Welsh National Assembly, and the Northern Ireland Assembly among other programmes of political interest.
[46][47] The BBC Parliament logo would also appear as a Digital on-screen graphic (DOG), located in the top left hand corner of the screen and present for all programmes.
Created in house by BBC News, the new ident would represent the "inner workings of Parliament", through the depiction of the mechanisms of Big Ben and the design inspirations of the Palace of Westminster.
[46] Pulsating rings would also be emitted from the coil as it spun, reflecting the BBC News style at the time, and the camera angle would often change position throughout the ident.
On 10 October 2016, the BBC News red and gears look gave way to a new on-screen imaging package with colourful idents and softer, orchestral music led by an oboe soloist with plucked strings, percussion and elements of a chorus.
The introduction of the news programmes themselves also consisted of similar elements, with the flag segments seen moving across the globe before forming behind the channel name in a translucent rectangle with the BBC logo on top.
Graphics consisted solely of a bar running across the bottom of the page which was multi-coloured to match the flag designs, but muted by a translucent finish to appear more appropriate for the bulletins.
[52] The channel uses few on screen graphics and astons for news coverage; this is partly a result of the differing time zones across the broadcast area so the use of a clock is inaccurate and impractical.
These titles features pulsating rings moving over a small cream-and-red spinning globe in the centre of the screen from various angles while place names of various cities appear around.
Immediately behind the presenters and only separated by a railing was the live newsroom set, complete with televisions embedded in the back wall and given a red makeover.
[54] The channel DOG for the look was relocated during news bulletins to a two-line logo, set within a red box with a spinning globe in the background.
[54] A red translucent box extended from the right hand side of the screen containing the countdown clock featuring the seconds and marking frame (PAL timecode).
The biggest changes were to the set, which now featured a large oval desk with one screen behind and to the left and separated from the newsroom by a frosted glass railing.
Above this, shaded black areas are used for information with glossy dark red boxes added on top in the case of some programmes and breaking news.
For junctions into non news programming, an ident featuring the globe and box logo appearing in the centre of the screen as each pulsating ring pass over it, was used.
The main titles remained similar after production moved to HD whilst the channel's astons were altered and the typeface was changed from Gill Sans to Helvetica.
In 2014, the countdown has been redesigned again, with the BBC World News box logo showing its slogan, "Live the Story," at the bottom left of the screen.
