Never mind the graphics

Never mind the Buzzcocks is a BBC 2 'irrelevant pop quiz' that explores the world of TV, music and comedy by pitting 2 teams together with regular captains: Noel Fielding; and Phillip Jupitus. The title seems to be made of a play on the Sex Pistols album, 'Never mind the bollocks' and a punk rock band from the 1970s, 'The Buzzcocks'.

What is the sequence showing us?

Throughout the sequence, we are shown images of various musical instruments such as: A guitar; a piano; effects pedals; speakers; and a drum kit. Using the graphics, Light Creative have managed to slowly reveal the shows name, with words written onto the various devices needed to make an electric guitar function, before finally finishing on a drum kit:

Plectrum needed to be able to play guitar

The amp needed to give the guitar sound

The effects pedal needed to allow for awesome guitar effects, typical of the 'Sex Pistols' and of 'The Buzzcocks' within their music

Then all placed together to say the shows name as a whole, on the drum kit

To make this sequence, a graphical software package would have been needed, in order to achieve the affects of instruments breaking and smashing in the way they had been and for movements to happen in the way they had done. More so than that, every element of the sequence is all a computer generated graphic that has been built and designed over a long period. Despite the focus on pure 3D graphics, the sequence is simple and doesn't contain anything else that takes the focus away from the smashing instruments. 

This title sequence doesn't even bother to mention the presenters or team captains, its all about the instruments and the title. With the show being heavily based in and around the world of music, the message is addressed with the instruments alone, without the need to mention any body who is taking part in the show.

The sequence is more so relevant to the title, Never mind the Buzzcocks, due to what was mentioned at the start with the links towards punk rock era of the Sex pistols and The Buzzcocks. But to truly understand what the whole sequence is about, and why it was made in this way in relation to the Sex Pistols and The Buzzcocks, we must ask what Punk truly is? Punk as a sub-genre, was calculated anger, an anger aimed at the establishment; hippies; the commodifications to rock and roll (Clark, D - Cited Cullen 1996: 249) This hatred towards everyone it seems, needed a way to be vented, hence Punk Rock was born. To further show the world that they were angry, hotel rooms were destroyed, guitars, bass guitars, drums were all smashed in a seemingly fits of rage. 

http://www.lightcreative.co.uk/#titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1_NxQ01JE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v0dz
http://www.academia.edu/156134/The_Death_and_Life_of_Punk_The_Last_Subculture