Members Huntress Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 I thought we could share videos of opening sequences here <img src="http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JamesF Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 I'll do some Neighbours. 1992 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> 1996 1998 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> 2001 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> 2003 2008 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members detroitpiston Posted September 5, 2008 Members Share Posted September 5, 2008 Home & Away Opening Weird not seeing Sally in the opening anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt P. Posted September 5, 2008 Members Share Posted September 5, 2008 I love Home and Away's 2007 opening (the one where they complain that the singer overexagerates the language) but Neighbours closing has a better theme. Though I will say Emmerdale 1998-2005 opening is powerful: Here's an intro to a show that I've fallen in love with and think should have been given more of a chance (sort of the Sunset Beach of the UK): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted September 5, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2008 The current Neighbours opening looks great Marienhof used to have a great opening from 2002 to 2007, but then they changed it into this mess: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted September 5, 2008 Members Share Posted September 5, 2008 Verbotene Liebe is my fave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 5, 2008 Members Share Posted September 5, 2008 My favourite, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ben Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 Night And Day was awesome. Should've lasted way longer, but got screwed by the Network. Even though it was promoted as a Sunset Beach-esque show, it was more Port Charles meets Passions. SuBe would never have delved into the world of vampires and daughter-turning-father in to a robot! That was way to freaky for SuBe. It's just so classy. Money well spent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DavidEvanSmith Posted September 8, 2008 Members Share Posted September 8, 2008 As an opening sequence FREAK, I love this thread! It seems all foreign soaps believe in having lyrics in their theme songs. I find it interesting that Passions was the only soap in recent years to do that? ABC's last one was..... Loving? OLTL before it. In America, they really didn't do any lyrics after when, the 80s (except Loving up until its transformation into The City in 1995). I was also surprised in how much photos, photo albums, photo frames, and photo booths are incorporated into the opening sequences, as they were with Marienhof, Home & Away, and Neighbours. Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten seems to have the most "americanized" opening, visually. I also found it interesting a couple of soaps had the actors on green screen superimposed over settings, so that the character can pop out of the setting and float toward the viewer. I have to say I really hate most all of the Neighbours openings. They all seem like openings to cheesy sitcoms, and the theme song's lyrics were really cheesy, but luckily they cut the lyrics down in later versions. I'd love to see more, if anyone has them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 Celebrating my favourite Mexican songwriting team - Arriaga/Murguía (cheasy, slick songs ; I didn't know whether to put this in the telenovela thread, here or in the TV soundtracks): "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JamesF Posted September 9, 2008 Members Share Posted September 9, 2008 I hate the lyrics though after 20 years you become vaguely immune to them. The worst part is that unlike Home and Away, they almost never dispense with the opening during a dramatic episode so you go from the recap into that into a bushfire or a hostage drama or a paternity reveal. In fact I think the only time they ever have done it was during the plane crash a few years ago. A few more Aussie ones Sons and Daughters - 1987 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> E Street - 1989 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> E Street - 1991 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Breakers - 1998 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Breakers - 1999 "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> headland - 2005 The Young Doctors - 1979 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cat Posted September 10, 2008 Members Share Posted September 10, 2008 OMG, Sons & Daughters! The Young Doctors! I loved those shows (when I was really little, we lived in England and those shows were on at, like, 3.30pm) -- especially S&D which was a neurotic trashfest. Pat the Rat! S&D had the most soapy, spooky background music, too. That opening theme is a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted September 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2008 Verbotene Liebe (2002-2003) The only characters that are still on the show these days are Arno, Charlie, Olli (absent from 2002-2007) and Elisabeth. Marienhof (2002-2003) Unter uns (2003-2004) Sturm der Liebe (Telenovela, third cycle 2008) "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 10, 2008 Members Share Posted September 10, 2008 French Sous le Soleil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 10, 2008 Members Share Posted September 10, 2008 Dutch Westenwind "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"> Italian Centovetrine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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