Favourite WC intro ?

fryup

Whats your favourite WC intro ?

is it.....

BBC's intro

ITV's intro

RTE's intro

alchemist33

I'd never watched the BBC and ITV intros until now. And I still wonder if RTE's is their own or done for someone else; it seems too good.

I'll go for RTE. BBC second

RayCon

RTE (prefer this tune above all the others)
BBC
ITV

.... in that order for me.

Sparko

alchemist33 wrote: »

I'd never watched the BBC and ITV intros until now. And I still wonder if RTE's is their own or done for someone else; it seems too good.

I'll go for RTE.

RTE's is the official one provided by FIFA.

alchemist33

Sparko wrote: »

RTE's is the official one provided by FIFA.

Ah. As I feared/suspected

RayCon

Sparko wrote: »

RTE's is the official one provided by FIFA.

Ah ... that explains a lot

blueser

Not overly impressed with any of them, to be honest. Couldn't RTE have made up their own? I'm sure they got some extremely talented people working in graphics/animation.

thelad95

blueser wrote: »

Not overly impressed with any of them, to be honest. Couldn't RTE have made up their own? I'm sure they got some extremely talented people working in graphics/animation.

This made me laugh. They made a massive deal about when they changed the RTÉ logo, even though nobody noticed it had changed. Considering their coverage is being run on a shoe string, I doubt they would have the funds to employ people to make their own intro. The cost of BBC's and ITV's intros probably make up RTÉ's whole world cup coverage budget.

Anyway, I think ITV's is the best. BBC's is creepy as feck.

McGrath5

I liked the one FIFA made for the 2006 WC.

Sir Gallagher

I kind of like the ****ty animation of the official fifa/rte one.

They just had to reference 1966 in the UTV one didnt they.

blueser

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

I kind of like the ****ty animation of the official fifa/rte one.

They just had to reference 1966 in the UTV one didnt they.

Why wouldn't they? It's the finest moment in England's football history; of course they'd reference it. Every country likes to look back at past successes. And looking at the quality of the current bunch of jokers playing for England, they'll be a while waiting for another major trophy so they'd better make the most of 1966. And I wish I had a tenner for every time I've seen Ray Houghton's goals at Euro '88 and USA '94.

Turtwig

Fifa one is the best. Shows a gathering of nations for football in Brazil.

The rest don't really show the "world" and carnival aspect to it.

ballsymchugh

that fella getting the ronaldo haircut in the ITV one annoys me. no idea why. it's the main reason i can't stand it.
and the music.

Larry Wildman

I liked ITV's one for France '98.

It was a Jean Michel Jarre electronic tune called "Rendez Vous '98" with match clips. When Michael Owen scored his wonder goal against Argentina, they used footage of it and it worked really well.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6lraEDizM

blueser

ballsymchugh wrote: »

that fella getting the ronaldo haircut in the ITV one annoys me. no idea why. it's the main reason i can't stand it.
and the music.

Along with the ''Brazeel, Brazeel'' guff. As Mr Kipling might say; exceedingly annoying.

fryup

the bbc one has the nicest tune