http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDz08qQYFY

It's probably just my generally February-esque mood today but I'm not feeling opening credits with people posing in front of CGI backgrounds. In the past I was fine with them (hello Dynasty, Sunset Beach etc) but I'm thinking now that Sylph's call for a simple concept opening like Lost is maybe the way to go. Heck, at least with Lost, the sinking underwater feel and expressive music says everything that needs to be said in 10 seconds. True Blood's opening is a lot longer but the music and montage are really representative of the show.

And even when GH moved away from the hospital to spies under Gloria Monty, that opening with the screeching ambulance and 70s theme just fit.

While the concept is a step up, the music is even worse paired with these visuals. I feel it is too up tempo and should have been remixed or scored completely differently. I like that it takes us back to Faces of the Heart in terms of style and its nice to see the hospital featured throughout.

I grade this a B-..... I hope they change the music later on.

I'll be interested to see if AMC and OLTL follow suit.

For those in Canada (and elsewhere) who can't see it on SOAPnet: http://www.twitvid.com/19391

Not the best quality but I did my best.

It's probably just my generally February-esque mood today but I'm not feeling opening credits with people posing in front of CGI backgrounds. In the past I was fine with them (hello Dynasty, Sunset Beach etc) but I'm thinking now that Sylph's call for a simple concept opening like Lost is maybe the way to go. Heck, at least with Lost, the sinking underwater feel and expressive music says everything that needs to be said in 10 seconds. True Blood's opening is a lot longer but the music and montage are really representative of the show.

Thank you. I could live with people posing in front of horses running, staircases in gargantuan mansions... Like in Verbotene Liebe, but over some cheap CG imagery — no, not really. I kind of like VL's opening — minus the song, just atrocious — but at times it verges on kitschy.

So a title card or some short 15-second, 30-second graphics, spooky & sinister, with some kind of a bang (literal or figurative) in the end that takes you by surprise — I think that's just what suits GH.

Taste does not depend on money.

I love how in the one shot with Spinelli and Monica, the ambulance looks like it's about to plow that poor orderly!

I am not impressed. The shots, the whole thing felt thrown together and unimaginative although I bet Phelps spent hours on it.

Kudos to Jason Cook making the credits. He gets more airtime there than on the show. Frons won't cut him loose because he knows that Days would sign him in a hot second.

Sonya Eddy is the only black person in PC. Since she isn't a size 4, it must have killed Phelps to have to put her in the credits.

I'm watching it again and I guess it really pained whoever put it together since if you seriously blink you missed Sonya E. It's like they had to put her up because she's on contract. Jason Cook's picture was thrust forwarded before her name even faded. Jeez.

Ingo looks constipated and Kelly is trying too hard to be sexy. BA looks incredibly goofy. I guess he's trying to keep in character...

Sigh. Overall it's an improvement from the last one.

Edited February 23, 201015 yr by Money

Looks better on a TV.

Edited February 23, 201015 yr by weareclouds

I'm watching it again and I guess it really pained whoever put it together since if you seriously blink you missed Sonya E. It's like they had to put her up because she's on contract. Jason Cook's picture was thrust forwarded before her name even faded. Jeez.

Ingo looks constipated and Kelly is trying too hard to be sexy.

Overall it is an improvement from the last one.

I just don't like how a lot of the shots lack motion/movement. All of the close up shots, as well as Kelly Monaco's, have barely any facial expression and no movement whatsoever. The best shots, for me, are Lisa Locicero's, Jane Elliot's, Kirsten Storms' (although her hair needs fixed) and Tony Geary's second shot. The rest are all too close up for my liking. I am tempted to experiment with this opening when a full HD version of it emerges, maybe edit it with some of the older shots and maybe new background graphics...

The best shots, for me, are Lisa Locicero's, Jane Elliot's, Kirsten Storms' (although her hair needs fixed) and Tony Geary's second shot.

Lisa Lo.

I'm not sure if I like it. It kind of looks like a watered down version of an opening you'd see for one of the foreign soaps. The tacky ass lens flares aren't helping(damn you JJ Abrams and Andrew Krammer for making that s.hit popular again!). I do like most of the shots(especially LW's!) and the background images of PC that mostly came from GH: Nightshift. And it's definitely better than the last opening.

I love how in the one shot with Spinelli and Monica, the ambulance looks like it's about to plow that poor orderly!

haha, the same can be said about the Edward/Tracy shot. Maybe its symbolism.

I'm not sure if I like it. It kind of looks like a watered down version of an opening you'd see for one of the foreign soaps. The tacky ass lens flares aren't helping(damn you JJ Abrams and Andrew Krammer for making that s.hit popular again!). I do like most of the shots(especially LW's!) and the background images of PC that mostly came from GH: Nightshift. And it's definitely better than the last opening.

:lol: J.J. Abrams Admits Star Trek Lens Flares Are "Ridiculous"

Edited February 23, 201015 yr by Sylph

haha, the same can be said about the Edward/Tracy shot. Maybe its symbolism.

Dull opening, totally lacking in imagination. A BIG YAWN.

*ahem*

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/shamelessplug

Just to show how it doesn't take huge video editing suites to produce something half decent.

Edited February 23, 201015 yr by UKBoi

Wow I just watched it on today's episode. I love it. And I am so glad that the hospital is more prominent in it. And I am also thrilled that they have backgrounds like Wyndemere and the Casino. I think they majorly toned down the speed of the song, not quite as slow and melodic as the original faces of the heart, but MUCH better than the last.

I like that they included actors names. And this DOES look like it would be easier to add/remove people.

And even the the initial shots of the hospital are more modernized, there are pans of the original "General Hospital", too. Like in Alexis' shot.