Draft:Itogi

Credits

Compiled by
Cattotld

Editions by
KosMir

Video captures courtesy of
ЗТИТД, Kinotoriy and R1991

Background

Itogi (English: Results, also translated as Totals; Cyrillic: Итоги) was a weekly author's informational and analytical television program of Yevgeny Kiselyov in Russia. The program discussed and analyzed the main political news, events and trends in political life, well-known politicians, prominent public and cultural figures regularly spoke. Also, the features of the program were the presence of the concept of the main and secondary topics, their own ratings, expert comments and telephone surveys on the topics of the week.

The decision to create the program was made in October 1991, after the departure of Yevgeny Kiselyov, Oleg Dobrodeev and several other employees from the Vesti program. The program started broadcasted on Channel 1 Ostankino on January 5th, 1992 and was produced by RGTRK Ostankino.

In 1993, Dobrodeev and Kiselyov decided to leave RGTRK Ostankino, considering it impossible for themselves to work in the current conditions (Channel 1 Ostankino increasingly worked in the interests of a Russian president of the time, Boris Yeltsin). On September 19th, 1993, the program was broadcast for the last time on Channel 1 Ostankino, after which its production was transferred to Itogi LLP and NTV Television Company LLP. Since October 10th, 1993, the program has been aired on Channel 5, but since January 23rd, 1994, after switching to the fourth channel of NTV, it began to air on this frequency. For some time (until the end of March of the same year), Itogi, like the rest of NTV's information programs, continued to air on Channel 5.

During the takeover of NTV, one episode of the program was released on April 15th, 2001 on TNT under the title "Itogi na TNT".

After the change of ownership of Media Most at the end of April 2001, the program moved to TV-6. The first issue on the sixth channel aired on April 22nd, 2001, when correspondents, directors and editors were not yet full-time employees of the TV channel. The last broadcast on TV-6 took place on January 20th, 2002, a day before the TV channel was disconnected from the federal broadcast on January 22nd. After the closure of TV-6, the program was broadcast for some time (from January 27th to March 31st, 2002) on the Echo of Moscow radio station.

On June 2nd, 2002, Itogi started airing on TVS, which won the competition for the frequency where TV-6 was broadcasting until the last day. The last issue of Itogi before the closure of TVS was shown on June 8th, 2003, since the following Sunday (June 15th), its broadcast was originally not supposed to take place due to the holiday of Russia Day, celebrated on June 12th. The last issue of Itogi in the history of the program, which was scheduled for June 22nd, did not go on the air due to the closure of the TV channel that took place earlier than the expected date.

1st Intro (January 5, 1992-September 19, 1993)

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  Opening variant
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  Alternate variant

Visuals: Over a blue cloudy sky timelapse background, the silver letters "uт гu" zoom out while tilting to their normal position, as well as a golden globe model, with a cut out of spherical grid, zooming in the center. After they settle themselves in the middle of the screen, two purple and pink curved paint strokes draw in behind the logo near the bottom of it.

Variant: An alternate variant has a CGI fountain pen on a solid white background drawing the black cursive word "Итоги" on the front, with the camera turning from the right, and settling below afterwards as the camera zooms in.

Technique:

• Live-action and 2D computer animation for the opening variant.
• CGI animation for the alternate variant.

Audio: A synth chord followed by two pencil drawing sounds.

Audio Variant: An alternate variant has an uplifting synth saxophone tune. Sometimes, the theme is rearranged with a somber xylophone theme.

2nd Intro (October 10, 1993-1995)

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  A nearly finished product of an early variant
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  A finished product of both early and later variants

Visuals: On a sepia paper surface with a spotlight in the darkness, a fountain pen appears from the bottom of the screen as a light slowly turns on to illuminate a paper surface. As soon as a pen is about to draw something on a surface, the screen cuts to the same sequence, but in close-up; and a pen draws a large, black-outlined circle, with a spotlight following him. As a pen draws a circle, the camera pans slowly as it cuts to the same shot from different angles three times. In the third time, a pen finished drawing a circle, and the camera zooms in to the circle as a transparent dark marble texture, contained within a circle fades in. As soon as camera zooms in, the screen fades into the second shot of a pen drawing from before, but with a transparent, blurry circle containing a footage of what appears to be three men running outside in the middle of the screen. After a second, the screen fades to a close-up of a person playing the violin, along with a footage of a group of men playing the violins at the upper-right corner, with a transparent, wavy cloudy-like tunnel in the whole screen area. Then, the footages fade to the final animation of the Itogi logo, which is same as the Segodnya intro of the time, except the camera rotates from a different tilted angle, and the letters (which appeared to have some sort of a cloudy texture at first) between a marble sphere with a world map are "ИТ ГИ", with a red line being drawn below by the same fountain pen sliding from left to right off-screen as the black text "с Евгением Киселевым" wipes in above the program title.

Later Variant: Starting in mid 1994, a paper surface throughout the whole intro is already light gray. Also, before the transition to the footages with men playing the violins, the screen fades to a transparent footage of a pen signing contract slips against a slideshow of clips of people walking and cars driving in the streets.

Technique: A mix of CGI animation and live-action by Creat.

Audio: A majestic orchestral piece accompanied by whooshes and bells.

Audio Variant: In the later variant, the middle of a first half of the theme is extended; and because of this, one of the whooshes is out of sync with the formation of a red line below the program title.