Concept and creative process
Opening titles for the 1987 election results programme. The 1987 Election graphics team comprised Howard Moses, George Daulby, Rod Ellis, Josie Gibson, and Laurie Russell. The year-long project comprised titles, constant storyboarding of content graphics, liaising with the BBC regions, as well as extensive graphic testing with the BBC’s Computer Graphics Workshop team.
For the computer modelling of the title sequence, Black Rod, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell, agreed to supply various elevation plans of the Houses of Parliament based on the original drawings by Pugin and Barry.
Rod Ellis designed the fly around the Palace of Westminster which was then used as the main part of the generic title sequence. At Crown Computer Graphics, Chris Fynes coded the choreography and John Speirs digitised the plans. The end pack shot title was designed by Howard Moses and computer generated at Electric Image.
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Election 87 CGI titles, storyboards, models, stills and promo materials
A screenshot from the title sequence for ‘Election 87’ computer generated by Crown Computer Graphics. Chris Fynes coded the choreography and John Speirs digitised the plans based on the original drawings by Pugin and Barry. Designed by Rod Ellis and Howard Moses
Title sequence storyboard for ‘Election 87’ designed by Rod Ellis. The sequence was based on the digitised original elevation plans of the Houses of Parliament
Graphics content sequence storyboard for ‘Election 87’
Graphics content sequence storyboard for ‘Election 1987’ 2
Physical model created as an aid for the computer generation of the Election 87 programme logo. Designed by Howard Moses
News Graphics Office Lime Grove Studios about 1975. Left Roger Kennedy, foreground George Daulby, right Howard Moses
1983 Election Computer Graphics
Left to right, Bill Gardner (Manager, Computer Graphics Workshop); Robin Vinson (Senior Programmer); Ewen Maclaine (Senior Programmer). Standing is Roger Kelly (Planning Engineer with Studio Capital Projects Department). All busy keeping an eye on transmission throughout the night of the 1983 live General Election results programme
The cover and three spreads from the Logica brochure describing its ICON computer graphics system, developed for use by the BBC in the presentation of the 1979 General Election programme
The cover and three spreads from the Logica brochure describing its ICON computer graphics system, developed for use by the BBC in the presentation of the 1979 General Election programme
The cover and three spreads from the Logica brochure describing its ICON computer graphics system, developed for use by the BBC in the presentation of the 1979 General Election programme
The cover and three spreads from the Logica brochure describing its ICON computer graphics system, developed for use by the BBC in the presentation of the 1979 General Election programme
1983 and 1979 Election Handbook covers
1983 Election Handbook page 1
1983 Election Handbook page 2
1983 Election Handbook page 3