Doctor Who: Paul McGann Title Sequence
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- What if, one day, Paul McGann was finally given his own series as the Doctor?
Back in May, I decided to tackle the concept. I wanted to produce a title sequence for a fictional series where McGann returns to his role as the 8th Doctor, where we’d see him fight to defend his home during the Time War. I knew I wanted the title sequence to have a totally different flow, and not simply be bound the imagery of abstract space and time that we usually see. Instead, I wanted the sequence to take place (mostly) surrounding Gallifrey.
The whole sequence was based around the idea of the setting Suns of Gallifrey, showing the contrast from light into darkness. We initially see them sink behind the planet, and then we see them submerge behind the mountains and sandy dunes on Gallifrey’s surface. Silhouetting the departing TARDIS, and casting the distant Citadel into darkness. The tone of the project needed to be relatively doom-laden - we know the ending of the Time War wasn’t exactly a happy one.
I was also very keen to include the imagery of a Dalek in the sequence. I planned to show the Dalek as an oncoming presence. I ended up taking a much more stylised approach to this, with thanks to a brilliant 3D rendering by Anthony Lamb (who is linked below). We see a lifeless Gallifrey, falling into the cosmos to be ‘consumed’ by the image of a Dalek.
The project was scored by the immensely talented Peter Miles (Dalekium) who you can follow here:
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Thanks again to Anthony Lamb for lending his 3D talents:
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Lastly, thanks to Jonathan Picard for his TARDIS render:
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Every shot of this could be a desktop wallpaper
Seriously I honestly thought the same!
I literally just made the image of the TARDIS framed by the setting sun my desktop wallpaper haha
@@tayavan3182 yeah I did the same when the trailer came out lol
The hallmark of good animation!
0:05 would be a pretty lousy wallpaper
"These titles, they fit perfectly!"
The BBC and HBO would make a KILLING from a spin-off like this
Trouble is HBO only have streaming rights as in right to stream the series not make anything new
@@CricketEngland That ABSOLUTELY needs to change.
@@Fragile_Media hbo is American, bbc is British, I’m sure the two company’s wouldn’t mix well
@@fazedlocseryu5093 They literally produce TV shows together
*Coughs loudly* Fox And the BBC teaming up to make the 1996 movie *Coughs Loudly Again*
If Netflix got the rights to make a high-budget eighth doctor spin-off I imagine the title would look a lot like this
You know what happened when the Americans tried to do Doctor Who...
@@techmaster1769 Yeah but that was old Hollywood. The Streaming Services operate and act differently. Netflix especially has produced many international Products of high Quality. They helped German TV out of the Gutter and gave us some great british Programmes too. Netflix has also shown that they approach Source Material with a lot of Respect. I think this could work.
Yes my thoughts exactly. Imagine how awesome that would be tho!
That's oddly specific...
@@techmaster1769 yes, which is how we got Paul McGann in the first place. The TV movie may have HUGE issues, but the casting of the Doctor wasn't one of them.
This is the kind of experimental stuff i want the BBC to be doing, hats off for doing something unique!
Agreed, they just do the same intro all the time pretty much
They spend too much time on Earth in the stories, as well.
@@jaycee_baronallways England aswell
The slow death of Gallifrey, the sun setting on an arrogant timelord empire. Absolutely perfect.
Just imagine an 8th Doctor mini-series with the scale of The Mandalorian... beautifully done - Amazing work!
I think that’ll be a brilliant idea
8th still looks good for the part
Could you imagine it, Doctor Who but watchable and actually good.
This is the way.
The Doctorlorian
Ok, this needs to be used when the BBC gets its house in order with DW.
That sadly is going to take brain transplant there. The whole of BBC needs to be sacked and people put in that aren’t WOKE to the Nth degree. Only way that happens is if they have to compete. That happens when the tv charge is finally lifted.
I can agree that they needa get their act together but I don't think wokeness is a problem with DW, it's always been like that and sure open commies have written for the classic show back in the day. It's just Chibbers is all about ham fisted exposition. Like it tells yiu how to feel but doesn't give you a reason to, souless is the word I'd use. The fucked the Doc over so bad, Jodie's such a cla actor but she has nothing to work with. I wish they went in the direction of a stern Mother or something and it's really insulting to the audience to give us bland as fuck characters (barr Ryan and Graham). It's a shame cause he wrote Boardchurch and thats unreal.
@Jason B. It's not just McGann. You need to replace the producer and get new writers who appreciate Classic Who and would take Classic Who and modernise it, not bastardise it like New Who has.
@@RobertWilke tough, doctor who has always been "woke"
The music sounded like the Doctor Who version of the Mandalorian theme
Don't you mean Mandalorian version of the Dr Who theme...
I'm gonna be honest the humming at the start gave me hunger games "Rue's Whistle" vibes
The Doctorlorian?
@@ospreyphil8995 with K-9 as their version of Baby Yoda
@@martymcfly1312 k-9 as a puppy?
FFS, you managed to capture something that is uniquely Paul McGann's Doctor. This is understated, mythic, foreboding. Well done. Wish the BBC would take notice of superior efforts like this.
this just makes the heartache of not having an eighth doctor time war miniseries even more painful
Listen to big finish. He’s got a whole bunch of Time War stuff
@@realmaximouse i love his big finish work; it proves that he's fit for the role- he deserves more, he needs a TV series
@@jamesluna5914 I agree he's great but why it wouldn't justify the budget it would take it will just be us fans watching it and would alienate new viewers which are very important as without them the show dies and we get books where the second doctor is shot in the head
@@plantainsame2049 It wouldn't have to do any of that at all. That's just presumption on your part.
The same exact arguments were leveled against bringing it back in the 90s, and again in the early 2000s. "Nobody knows what Doctor Who is anymore! All the fans are old now. It's just some forgotten show from the 80s!" Yeah. People make that assumption all the time.
You could very easily write an 8 part miniseries following Paul McGann's doctor. The first two episodes would act to fill the audience in on who what where when and why, and from there you'd have six stories to explore the start of, and follow through of the Time War.
@@OpenMawProductions Says the genius responding to the ancient comment
It’s genuinely baffling that the BBC hasn’t thought to make a series like this
They don’t have the talent unfortunately.
_“Just what the_ *Doctor* _ordered!”_
This joke makes me sick, I might need to see a, *doctor*
*0:50** If this isn’t the most badass Dalek centric shot in any media in general...*
I wouldn't say the most badass, but it is the most well portraited and beautiful image from a Dalek, and somehow I felt fear in some moments. New points of view, new approaches - new serious possibilities...!
@@jenergomes Absolutely Agreeable, it looks so beautiful but provokes a sense of dread as the eyestalk encompasses Gallifrey
That was so different and unique to anything I’ve ever seen before, fantastic job, loved the visuals and colours!!
Thank you so much, that was very much the intention! I aimed to make it feel like a sequence you’d see on Amazon Prime/Netflix/HBO - something really stylised.
@@David_Burgess27 Well, you succeeded.
The aesthetic and feel of this title sequence is dreamlike; probably the best title sequence I've seen.
This is a really good intro. Most fan intros I've seen just do the generic "TARDIS floats around and then title appears" thing, but this actually did something fresh. The simple color scheme, combined with the use of abstract backgrounds, made for a calm yet foreboding atmosphere. Your use of familiar imagery was pretty great too. The symmetry in your shot composition, like with the TARDIS and the Dalek, was excellent. None of it felt overwhelming or in your face.
I also love the way you remixed the music. The older elements aren't just there for the sake of it. They're arranged to fit the tone of the intro. They add that older quality without feeling tacked on or plainly overlayed.
Honestly, this might be one of my favorite Doctor Who intros just for how creative it is.
One of the most imaginative titles i've seen in a while. The match cut between Gallifrey and the Sun is genius. And the Tardis take off shot is perfection and is extremely memorable. The shot of the sand dunes with the citadel in the distance is also extremely well done and feels really alien and otherworldly. The shots of the doctor are beautiful and can connote him being a traveller in time and space. The second shot can also represent the doctor turning his back on the universe with his face obscured by shadow representing his un-doctor-like behaviour during this period. The shot with Gallifrey in the Daleks eyestalk can represent the ambition to take Gallifrey. The vortex shot brilliantly done and really well suits the the tone of the titles and the time war. The colour closely resembles that of the 7b intro, perhaps being a call back to Night of the Doctor. My only criticism is the doctor shot is too similar to your previous sequences but overall its a really imaginative and creative titles, with a brilliant atmospheric tone.
Also damn I predicted wrong!
Brilliant, so much darker, which it needs to be as Paul Mcgann's Doctor is on the brink & in the time war, There should be a Series or Film to promote this missing doctor, but who would write & Direct this important part of the Doctors life?
Big Finish crew -- Paul Cornell, Nick Briggs, Robert Shearman, Matt Fitton, John Dorney, Mark Gatiss and James Goss
Wow this is beautiful!
Grande Quetzal
0:22 chills
Hopefully Disney does a spin off with Paul as he deserves it
I wish it said “The Night of the Doctor” at the end cos this would be the perfect opening for the eighth doctor’s final story
me too
Come on Disney plus, you have doctor who now and it’s time to give one of the best doctors his on screen due after decades of owning it in audio form.
If Jon Favreau took over Chris Chibnalls job:
Ayrox we don't speak his name! He's now referred to as "the C word"
Bring back Russel T Davies and Mark Gatis after all no one could do anything worse than Chibnell
Of all the fanmade intros I've seen, this is my favourite! Very cool aesthetics, beautiful color palette, very different vibes from the actual series... Wow, I love it. Congratulations. :)
I wish Paul McGann would get his own series. It would be cool
he did do a bunch of audio plays. so there is that at lest
@@Elios0000 It still doesn't really respect Paul McGann though. If he's the eighth Doctor then should have had his own TV run like the others. The BBC are to blame as always, they could make it within the next 12 months if the will was there.
my favorite part of the whole thing is the distant and dystopian sounding Dun-----Dun-Dun------------Dun----Dun-Dun of the original theme. Letting us know that while this is still Doctor who, this is a wearier and desolate point in its history, essentially for the Titular Timelord himself
I could watch this over and over again.
I am watching this over and over again. I'm bewitched.
I just had to explain to my parents why I screamed in the middle of the night. Answer: this existed.
I don't often like these fan title sequences, but for some reason this really clicked with me. Great job!
Stunning! This really show the calmness and seriousness of the eighth Doctor! Love it! It’s so fitting for him. And honestly love Paul McGann. Give the man his tv show! He’s great in the night of the Doctor and got me sold on him! And heard the audiobooks are amazing!
The audio dramas ARE amazing.
Matches the melancholy tone of much of the Eighth Doctor extended universe stories quite well. Great job!
Pure genius. If D+ is seriously thinking about a McGann mini-series/series, they should offer you serious money for that opening sequence.
If this was a series, it would need an intro like this. It's a different kind of Doctor Who. You'll still get adventure, sure. But the tone is very much set to have some darker moments. It's almost a western style. The law is running out, that sort of thing. The creativity and beauty of this is I want it more than ever now. I wish they'd give Paul one series. Just one at minimum. Why export new doctors when we have a chance to really explore one of the most underrated doctors?
In a word, this piece is Perfection.
I know we'll probably never get anything like this in live action tv, but it would just be so fitting for the longest running time travel show to be told out of order... Like i know the whole thing is not really in order anyways, but finally having 1-2 seasons of live action McGann would just be so perfect.
Well done. Paul McGann deserved more than 96 minutes of screen time as the Doctor, though he's done quite well on audio.
This needs made NOW!! A 6 to 8 part mini series showing the events that kicked off the Time War would be absolutely epic
This looks amazing, the BBC would be lucky to have this as one of their official openings for Doctor Who!
this is easily one of the greatest intros i've seen on youtube (and I've seen A LOT)
Paul McGann! Ah, now I get the reference from Night of the Doctor, in the initial trailer! XD
Brilliant job mate!
What reference?
I am actually straight-up obsessed with this version of the title sequence - the scoring and the visuals are exactly perfect and this feels entirely and absolutely up-to-date. It gives DW that sort of brooding cool that would take the show to a whole new level, honestly
Wow! Beautiful, atmospheric, full of deep colour and a so promising. All we need is a tv series to go with it now. Brilliant!
Magnificent, great to see some love for Paul to, one of my highest rated Doctors :D
It's really hard to believe McGann is only a year younger than Peter Capaldi, I hope they give at least one more special before he joins the classic doctors of being too old
Given that his run intersected with the Time War, it would have to be for a more mature audience, and this more ominous opening conveys that maturity and dark tones very well
Great work - incorporating the image of a Dalek into the sequence is just perfect for a 'Time War' season!
The color vibrance, the goddamn compositing, the direction of where you placed specific elements and objects, and the chilling yet soothing music
This is non-exaggeratingly the most visually impressive thing I’ve seen since I found Astartes, godsend
Thank you 🙏
its funny you created this David, Steven Moffat gave a concept to do a Doctor Who series featuring Mcgann but BBC said no appearently.
Supposedly, Moffat went to BigFinish when they first were awarded their license and asked about writing Eighth Doctor stories but they didn't have permission at the time to do those and he wasn't interested in writing for the "Classic" Doctors at the time. This allegedly happened in the second wilderness years between the TV Movie and NewWho. Moffat was also active on rec.arts.tv.drwho back then even though he was writing professionally for television.
@@TheJeremyHolloway Yeah, no wonder Moffat or BBC said no. Shame, Mcgann deserves it. Hes 61 now. or 60... he needs a series :/
It's probably su to the tardis interior
Your sequence is outstanding! Love the colour scheme...
Genuine Chills watching this , McGann is a treasure that should be used before its too late, to fill in some of the gaps in series runs with some one offs or two parters.
This is beautifully crafted & would look great on the BBC at the start of that show.
Absolutely love the way the time tunnel builds out of a Dalek eyepiece. That is truly inspired.
This is freaking beautiful! I especially love the color scheme
This one oozes with foreshadowing.If this was a series it would be the 8th doctor constantly being confronted with the question:Is war truely always avoidable?That would lead up to him eventually becoming the war-doctor.
That was great, nice to see a fresh take on the titles and music too. The visual of the Dalek was a good idea something that could change season to season with story arcs and such.
A huge contrast to this Doctor's initial theme in the TV movie/pilot, which was heavily orchestrated and pretty bombastic. It's a nice reflection of how this Doctor starts with a life of adventure but ends slogged down in the worst war imaginable. I especially the like the guitar part at the start which hints at the full phrase, but cuts it short... a piece of this Doctor's life is missing at this point, and (for me) this version of the theme hints that he's lost parts of himself. Paul McGann and the TV movie was my first introduction to the Doctor, so I always have a soft spot for this iteration.
When the BBC gets their show ship-shape they need to hire you for the titles. This work is absolutely incredible and so atmospheric. Thank you for making this mind blowing work free!
Well this is absolutely amazing! The music, the colors, the images...
Definitely the best title that I saw on UA-cam!
Great work, I want more 👏
Absolutely incredible work. This is so good that the BBC or Netflix should commission a high-end series around it, just to use it
I genuinely would love an 8th Doctor Spin-Off.
To add to this, Doctor Who has been going through a rough spot. It is a dying programme and now more than ever, the BBC is losing money day by day due to the lack of TV Licensing going around. If only they'd branch out and work with companies like Netflix or HBO to make this a reality, we would probably see one of the greatest pieces of Doctor Who media ever made with a darker tone to the franchise. This would also mean more money for the BBC, something that could possibly be used to spearhead future Doctor Who serials.
The one we've all been waiting for!!! And here it is
That was nicely atmospheric, and a far sight better than the past few official attempts.
The BBC Logo at the start and the previously cryptic description made me think this was for something official and McGann was actually getting another story 😭
That transition from planet to Dalek eye was sweet. Excellently done my good sir.
This is so much better than any of the latest Doctor Who title sequences. Amazing work! The BBC need more talented people like yourself.
The bit with the Dalek eye is pure class
It would be great if the BBC did mini series like this between seasons of the main show with Paul, David, Matt, Peter and even David Bradley or Jo Martin.
FYI if you did a intro like this for David’s First Doctor or Jo’s Fugitive Doctor that would be awesome.
Excellent!!! I've always felt that not giving Paul McGann a run as the Doctor in his own series was and is still one of the great missed opportunities of modern British television!
Oh wow, I love this.
I can totally see this being a promo for Big Finish. Quite simple but very evocative, and wonderful use of the classic themes. (I was honestly expecting a reprise of the Movie theme)
When I saw the title of this video I screamed. This is gorgeous, fantastic, brilliant!
FINALLY!!!! this is even better than i imagined - and my hopes were high!
I absolutely love this. Makes an 8th Doctor spin-off seem so dark and gritty which (despite never watching the movie) feels like it would fit considering time war shenannigans.
*I NEED THIS!* (to become a real thing)!
Magnificently jaw-droppingly beautiful!
💙💙
If the BBC made a series around the 8th doctor I would so watch it. Your title screen encapsulates what the stories could be about so well :)
Beautiful through and through. Particularly enjoyed the little nod to the Arnold theme at the end.
This was so awesome it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Wish they hinted at the content of the episodes like this! Amazing!
There can only be one incredible VFX artist in the fandom at any one time, twas John Smith, but after he got his material on screen, now a new master rises...
I would explode with joy, I think :D
@@David_Burgess27 you at least deserve a big finish trailer. I mean they're just so amazing!
@@carlinjack1 he's done bf
This is not only an amazing homage, it's a hundred times more tasteful than most credit sequences. It combines the elements of Dr. Who with the retroactive feeling of the pyrrhic victory of the Time War. Just excellent.
This is the best version I've seen in ages! A refreshing change. Elements of mystery mixed with the old style Pertwee era intro. Love it.
OMFG PLEASE GIVE ME MORE I LOVE IT. We need this Doctor Who in our lives desperately.
This is amazing. The BBC really missed an opportunity with McGann.
Great job on this. Somewhere in the multiverse this show exists
One word: Perfection. Nailed it mate.
I love 0:30! The sun setting on Gallifrey, great metaphor for the time period
This is cinematically majestic! Has a very Netflix feel to it, I must say, but awesomely done overall. 👏
Every so often I come back to watch this and visualise what this show would be like. Superb work!
OMG This is amazing and so unique!!
This is just fantastic work!
Could not be more excited. If it's anywhere near as good as the other ones then it's better than anything the show has ever offered.
Oh and would you look at that, it is. But then that may just be my heart yearning for an 8th Doctor spin off Series.
This makes me excited about Dr. Who again
Can I use a fragment of this on my Doctor Who RPG game, please? I always give credit and I make no money out of it. Well, just a few cents. Or if I can pay you in any way (inside my limited budget) please just tell me.
Sorry, I’d prefer if it wasn’t used
@@David_Burgess27 Thanks for your reply and congratulations for your work!
The only thing I can describe this intro as, is mosaic. And pretty fitting for paul mcgann, and what the time war would represent.
It's such a shame the BBC hates giving fans what they want. A McGann prequel Series would be incredible.
They don't want to admit they've been wrong about not bringing back McGann full time. He'd show up his successors just as he did with just 4 minutes of screen time in "Night of The Doctor"...
@@TheJeremyHolloway Agreed. "Night of The Doctor" was nothing short of brilliance.
This is exceptional! It has a steampunk, mature feel to it.
I've always thought they should do a more adult spin-off titled 'The Time War' with Paul McGann.
Wow...just wow...I think this is much better than what would have been produced in the late 90's had McGann got a series. Nice work!
This short video is better Doctor Who than all of Chris Chinball's current abomination. WELL DONE!
I'm hoping to play The Doctor some day. I imagine I'd really want a title sequence like this, it's astonishingly beautiful
Thank you so much ☺️
Hooooo boy, that blew the cobwebs off me. Captivating, just captivating.
This looks like the kind of Doctor Who we actually deserved.