jrogo 188 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 CBS News started using new Special Report graphics today. They appear to have built upon the lower thirds CBS Mornings uses. Here is a clip from YouTube showing the new countdown, open, theme, L3's and a custom "Crisis in Ukraine" graphic. As for the music, they obviously modeled after the new CBS News Streaming music, if you listen closely you can hear the melody they use during headlines. -Personally I feel a voice over would actually fit considering how long it takes them to get to the main graphic, maybe they'll continue to have the anchor announce it.Perhaps "Live from CBS News, this is a Special Report". Just feels awkward to me with out something there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonDonP1 113 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Now that is one kickbutt theme music for a breaking news interruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 1509 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Not the best graphics package, especially compared to NBC, but much improved music and intro wise. The very flat and thick coloring of the L3 ribbon cheapens the look but the black and dark red are a good mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodfreyGR 493 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 A voiceover would improve the overall package a ton... Especially since CBS likes to stress that Norah is in "The Nation's Capital". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I LOVE almost everything about the CBS News graphics, but damn, the lower thirds are a consistent swing-and-a-miss. The condensed version of TT Norms just isn't great, to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey 779 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 11 hours ago, GodfreyGR said: A voiceover would improve the overall package a ton... Especially since CBS likes to stress that Norah is in "The Nation's Capital". I believe CBS News has not had a voiceover for regular special report opens (not counting special events) for a very long time. I can remember Dan Rather introducing his own special reports and I think it's been like that for as long as I have been paying attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningNews 1289 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 59 minutes ago, Geoffrey said: I believe CBS News has not had a voiceover for regular special report opens (not counting special events) for a very long time. I can remember Dan Rather introducing his own special reports and I think it's been like that for as long as I have been paying attention. And would be similar to the way Dan Rather used to introduce the CBS Evening News throughout the 80s before they got a voiceover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3059 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 According to this video, the SR intro voiceovers stopped in 1999. They had only used a VO for the outro ("For news 24 hours a day, go to cbsnews.com"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djlynch 54 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 One thing that would help the lack of voice over is if they cued Norah to start speaking earlier. The older examples in the video basically all had the anchor announce that it's a special report at the time a VO would have done the same thing, but here she waited until the intro ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronQ 259 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Apparently there's the shorter version of CBS News' new Special Report open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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