Hollywood Spotlights One Hometown
For Oscar night ‘04, a story was scheduled about a small town in northwest Arkansas which has seen increasing use as a movie location in recent years. There was footage for this, but a lot of it was locked-off interview footage, or locked-off footage of various parts of that community. I pulled an animated filmstrip element off of an old ABC stock footage reel (circa 2000), which was also the source of the black & white film leader element. The opening animation and closing tag were both done in Paint Shop Pro, using as many “movie logo fonts” as I could find (thanks yet again to FontFreak.com). I’m not sure that anyone, either within the station or on the outside looking at the promo as a viewer, caught that those elements were supposed to look like famous movie logos. In the end, I was trying to jazz it up, but it may have been too much effort to put into it. (Then again, I’d argue that we’re up after the Oscars. It better look like some effort’s been put into it.)


