Novosti (Channel One)

Credits

Descriptions by
2K-tan and KosMir

Captures by
2K-tan and The Vitebsk Man

Editions by
KosMir

Video captures courtesy of
Yra19803001 and Архив передач, анонсов и заставок, Igor Barbe, OxiTapes, AmrKrsk2000, Citizoren, Sv_television, Buynlargeinc, RUintro and SKondratev

Background

Novosti (Cyrillic: Новости; English: News) is the secondary news broadcast of Channel One in Russia, airing since February 10, 1985. The program is usually an overview of events that occurred in the past day of broadcast.

1st Intro (April 1, 1995-July 31, 1996)

Visuals: Same as the former 1994 ITA Novosti intro.

Later Variant: Starting on March 11, 1996, the animation for the ITA logo has been removed. Also, when a large line (which is now more darker) appears at the top of the text, the animation of a blue silk background loops (it actually plays normally and in reverse over and over again) for a second before it freeze-frames.

Technique: CGI animation by Render Club.

Audio: Same as the 1994 ITA Novosti intro.

2nd Intro (August 1-December 31, 1996)

Visuals: On top of the footage of a news studio with an aurora overlay, multiple, diagonal zig-zag-like shapes appear moving around the screen as these reflect multiple imagery of studio footage, city footage and other activities. These then move out from the screen as the background changes to other footage, including a person adjusting knobs, an official signing a document, a person twisting knobs on a TV mixer, people walking on a street, and a person using a reel system. The light purple text "НОВОСТИ" (in a bold font that resembles EuropeExtendedC) wipes in from left to right with a large glow in front of it, and the text "ОБЩЕСТВЕННОЕ РОССИЙСКОЕ ТЕЛЕВИДЕНИЕ" appears glowing in below. The background finally changes to a blurry shot of a TV mixer, mostly in a light blue color with other reflections shown.

Technique: 2D CGI animation with live-action footages by Igor Barbe.

Audio: A generic synth orchestra news fanfare composed by Sergey Chekryzhov.

3rd Intro (January 1, 1997-September 26, 1999)

Visuals: The sequence starts on a fiery orange background. A flash then occurs, as the background changes to a blue background where multiple overlaid footage is shown. Two glowing O's are shown moving from the sides and meeting at the center, while the background wipes to orange. A trail comes out of the merged "О" while copies of the word "ОБЩЕСТВЕННОЕ" appear vertically in white. The background shows footage of the news crew speaking to the camera. After a while, the background wipes via a rotating, thin golden ring to blue again as construction workers are shown at the left, and landmarks, as well as people marching are shown at the right. Meanwhile, the same letter sequence happens to the "Р" letter of "OPT", as copies of "РОССИЙСКОЕ" appear at the right. News crew speaking are shown at the left. The background then wipes via a thin golden ring from before to dark blue, as footage of an astronaut crew is shown, while the letter sequence happens to the "T", with copies of "ТЕЛЕВИДЕНИЕ" appearing briefly at the right. Footage of people marching is shown at the left. The background then wipes via a thin golden ring to another dark blue background with a globe spinning, where the text "НОВОСТИ" (in the same font as before) appears zooming out. Glass streaks move out as the colors of "НОВОСТИ" are revealed, and the border of the text, in gold, zooms out. A flash occurs at the center of the screen, and the "OPT" letters are faintly shown spinning in the background. The text "ОБЩЕСТВЕННОЕ РОССИЙСКОЕ ТЕЛЕВИДЕНИЕ", in white, appears scrolling at a low framerate below "НОВОСТИ". The intro then wipes out via a thin golden ring to the headlines section of the show.

Technique: CGI animation with live-action footages, also done by Igor Barbe.

Audio: A dramatic synth orchestra fanfare which was also composed by Sergey Chekryzhov and rearranged from the overture by A.P. Petrova from the movie Укрощение огня.

Audio Variant: Up until mid-late 1997, the intro had a different dramatic synth orchestra fanfare which started off with a drumroll.

4th Intro (September 27, 1999-October 7, 2001)

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  Regular variant

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  Special variant

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  Evening variant

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  Evening variant (2001)

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  Night variant

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  Night variant (2001)

Visuals: The sequence starts on a blue background with scanlines, with footage of a rocket launch at the bottom-left. A bright orange beam of light is shown at the center, while a holographic blue clock appears zooming in from the right. The background footage changes to a crowd, and then it quickly zooms out as other footage of the same crowd is shown on multiple screens. It quickly changes to military footage, as the same footage is reflected on a holographic screen rotating near the center, and it quickly zooms in as a light corridor in light blue and yellow quickly moves and rotates, as other light blue lights are shown moving and flashing across the screen. The light corridor gets less brighter as a blue iris grows around the corridor. The lights then fade out, and the word "НОВОСТИ" (in the same font as before) appears rotating with other multiple rays of light around it, along with a few transparent copies. The text rotates to its normal position in the center of the screen, while its transparent copies remain rotating. Lights remain flashing around the screen.

Variants:

• A special broadcast variant exists: when the word "НОВОСТИ" rotates to its normal position, the stacked text "СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЙ выпуск" appears below letter-by-letter via a light blue glowing circle.
• An evening broadcast variants also exist:
  • 1999-2001: It's basically same as the News Special variant, but instead of "СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЙ выпуск", the text "вечерний - выпуск" appears below.
  • 2001: During the shot with the word "НОВОСТИ" and its transparent copies, the spaced-out word "ВЕЧЕРНИЕ" appears near the top of the screen, zooming in and fading out before it begins to rotate; its teal copy flashes once and also fades out. When the word "НОВОСТИ" rotates to its normal position, the same word "ВЕЧЕРНИЕ" appears above "НОВОСТИ" via a light blue glowing circle.
• There are also night broadcast variants:
  • 1999-2001: Same as the evening broadcast variant, but the text below reads "ночной - выпуск".
  • 2001: Same as the evening broadcast variant, but during the shot with a military footage, there is also the transparent word "НОЧНЫЕ" (in Micra Bold font) flying near the top of the screen. The same word also appears rotating during the first shot of a light corridor. During the shot with the word "НОВОСТИ" and its transparent copies, the spaced-out word "НОЧНЫЕ" appears near the top of the screen with its white glow, zooming in and fading out. The end result is the same as the evening broadcast variant, but the text above reads "НОЧНЫЕ".

Technique: CGI animation with live-action footages by the Spanish design bureau The Brand.

Audio: Same as the previous intro.

5th Intro (October 8, 2001-September 7, 2003)

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  Regular variant

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  Special variant

Visuals: There is a light/dark blue background with multiple segments of footage appearing on-screen, first being the Ostankino Tower, and then moving around as shots of the military, people walking, assembly of a plane and the news crew are shown. The background then changes to a digital environment with multiple moving 3D lines; on two of the walls, monochrome footage of an interview, and color footage of a news studio are shown. The environment then turns around, as it changes to a darker blue background with segmented orange-red lines near the bottom, with the text "НОВОСТИ" (in white Micra Bold font) revealed near the top of the center. Footage of a blue cloudy sky is revealed on a transforming rectangle which turns diagonal and places itself below the text, with multiple shapes and lines shown around the logo. Most of the orange-red shapes have disappeared.

Early Variant: Up until spring 2002, some of the footages like the Ostankino Tower, the military, people walking and a monochrome footage of an interview were absent.

Variant: A special broadcast variant has the white text "СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЙ ВЫПУСК" forming via a transforming rectangle on a blue bold line near the bottom-right of the screen.

Technique: CGI animation with live-action footages.

Audio: A dramatic 16-note piano and synthesizer theme with light orchestral elements, along with a few whooshing sounds, ending with a held-out, light dreamy synth pad sounder (which was used in the regular idents of the time). This was composed by Oleg Litvishko.

6th Intro (September 8, 2003-August 29, 2004)

Visuals: A night sky appears as the camera turns and multiple rectangles containing videos of different changing shot from the previous intro are revealed. The camera then moves around as the environment turns into a mostly white background with multiple moving lines and rectangles showing other footage, along with a diagram. A red wall containing a globe rotating on a red environment is shown, and then it turns around as it is revealed to be on multiple trailing rectangles, similar to the beginning section. The rectangles turn around as the background is divided into a blue cloudy sky with rounded lines, a mostly cloudy sky and a white color. Multiple red and white lines are shown growing from the sides, and above the center, a white line appears behind a red square as both quickly extend into rectangles with the text "НОВОСТИ" (in the same font as before) wiping in.

Technique: CGI animation with live-action footages.

Audio: Same as the previous intro.

7th Intro (August 30, 2004-March 2, 2008)

Visuals: The sequence starts on a mostly blue/red gradient background with footage of a cloudy sky overlaid on it, as well as two square shapes shown on the upper-left and bottom-right corners. The background then zooms out to a fast pace as it completely turns into the gradient. A white globe is shown zooming in with multiple lines spinning around it. The screen cuts to close-ups of the globe, where a photo of the Earth (focused on the Middle East region) appears in the front of it along with graticule lines. The screen then fades to the same globe spinning with multiple lines and curves rotating around it, including transparent ones. The transparent lines turn into a different animation of a wired globe which zooms into the screen and reveals the blue/red gradient background, with the map details shown around the globe. The globe then zooms out as a white border grows at the center of the screen. The globe turns into four different styles and colors that are segmented by sides. The upper-left starts with the wired-looking globe and turns into a standard one with a purple-ish blue color, the upper-right has a light blue color with two globes overlaid, the bottom-right has a crimson red color with the other portion of the globe overlay from the upper-right side shown, along with a different, more detailed globe near the upper-left corners of it; and the bottom-left has an orange color with two different overlaid wired globes shown. A purple-ish blue curve appears rising in at the right side of the upper-left segment, while the text "НОВОСТИ" (in Palatino Linotype font) slides in at the upper-right segment, next to the curve as the left half of a white border fades away at the upper-left segment. During the formation of the globe segments, a two-colored horizontal bar rises at the top of the screen; its left side (which is placed on the upper-left segment of a globe) is light blue and its right side (which is placed on the upper-right segment of a globe) is white.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: A reorchestrated version of the 2001 theme, also composed by Oleg Litvishko.

8th Intro (March 3, 2008-Febuary 19, 2018)

Visuals: The sequence starts with zooming shots of a lightened Earth globe in orange surrounded by multiple orange-red stripes moving around it on a dark blue light background, with thin, curved grid-like lines reflected around the environment. The screen then fades to the segmented globe shown on the previous logo, but at an enhanced quality, and the bottom-left has a more yellow-ish color. The curve appears rising in from the upper-left sections of the segments while the "НОВОСТИ" text slides in, just like the previous intro. Being the first intro of the program to be in 16:9 ratio, when the screen fades to the part with the segmented globe, it zooms out to reveal that the sides of the globe animation have been mirrored to fit the sequence within the widescreen format. The left side of a two-colored bar at the top of the screen also has a white gradient overlay.

Early Variant: Up until June 1, 2011 when Channel One started broadcasting in widescreen, the intro remained in 4:3 ratio; and because of this, the mirrored sides of the globe animation were absent as the screen didn't zoom out.

Later Variant: Starting in 2014, the screen throughout the whole intro appears to be zoomed out a little more.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: Same as the previous intro.

9th Intro (Febuary 20, 2018-)

Visuals: The sequence starts with a zooming shot of a rotating transparent white globe with red landmasses on a light blue radial gradient background with blue moving stripes, inside which are navy blue landmasses, and light blue thin, curved grid-like lines around the environment (similar to the previous intro); there are also dark blue lines (both curved and linear) surrounding a globe. A dark red stripe (inside which are also red landmasses, and it has a white shadow) flies around the screen, causing it to transition into a shot where a globe consisting of golden-red stripes making landmasses is seen on the right side of the screen on the same background; the stripes in the background are also brighter. The orange-red stripes are flying around a globe before the screen wipes to the set with a dark red thick line, inside which is the word "НОВОСТИ", sliding in from the left side of the screen, which is displayed on the back wall of the news studio.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: Same as before, but the theme would carry on after the transition to the set.

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