Concept and creative process
The brief for this version of the ‘Question Time’ titles was simply to use the name. Trevor Marchant and Howard Moses cut each frame in reverse as cardboard templates. Then the graphics were hand embossed onto Italian watercolour paper, pegged in register to each other. It was done in reverse in order to avoid unnecessary tooling marks and blemishes in the paper’s fine texture as this would have shown up under the controlled lighting conditions of the BBC Video Rostrum Camera Studio, where the sequence was shot by cameraman Pete Willis.
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Question Time embossed watercolour paper
The brief for the title sequence of ‘Question Time’ was to use the name in some way. Designers Howard Moses and Trevor Marchant turned the ‘Q’ into the logo for the programme. They used abstracted details of the ‘Q’ letterform, embossed by hand onto Italian watercolour paper, and filmed it on the rostrum camera of the Video Rostrum Unit with Peter Willis.