Concept and creative process
Heinz Wolff presented ‘The Great Egg Race’, a programme that tested the skill and ingenuity of three teams. The programme took its name from the initial 1979 launch challenge which was to transport an egg the furthest distance by rubber-band-powered means without breaking it. The name stuck and Lesley Hope-Stone took her inspiration for the 1983 title sequence from this. She devised and filmed a series of scenarios, from the construction to the launch of a Heath Robinson-type device, which by action and reaction ultimately delivered an egg unbroken into an eggcup on a winner’s podium. The neon effect programme logo was filmed separately backlit on a rostrum camera and composited with the film shoot in a film optical.