Series VII DVD Intros

Which begs the question (actually, it doesn’t, it’s just a convenient place to ask)… why the smeg did you put the Easter Egg in such a place on the VI menu that you can’t skip the lead-in and get straight to the menus?

> My point is, with the exception of VII, the model intros are all kinda series-specific.

Well no, they’re not – if they were, it would change every series and it doesn’t.

They’re SHIP specific, setting specific. The model intro to III isn’t remotely specific to III. They’re generic to the era. Hell, we used a Series VI chromakey Starbug in the III/IV/V set-up, and I think the VI/VII opening includes a V Starbug shot. You use the shots that tell the story, not to make sure every series’s shots gets a fair showing.

Bear in mind, too, that we had to use each series CGI menu setting twice (excepting the triple use on V that allowed VIII). That’s where the changes are – same location, differing details. In that respect VII is as different from VI as IV is from III.

> Granted, the Starbug interiors (fantastic, BTW) are different, but no VII model shots were used. Why?

Because most of the model shots in VII were rejected. And, as you’ve kinda proved, most approved ones don’t fit the title sequence at all. (How does a crashed GELF ship fit when we have to get to a crashed Starbug interior?) Though I do love the use of a Starbug shot that shows the ship crashing into the backcloth!

To be honest, you’ll be hard pushed getting anything past Andrew. He recognised the carpet of an ebay photograph which was that of his office.