Production Logo Research

My media group are edging ever closer too making our production logo. We have decided that it would be good if we looked at others production logos to gain inspiration from it and too see what their effect has on their audience members.

Whenever you see the Universal logo it is instantly recognisable and automatically associated with big name films. This would be good to use in a film that has the genre of sci-fi because of the globe in the middle. This type of  production logo wouldn't work for our media production because we are wanting to base ours on our thriller if its possible and this production logo is a bit too generic.

 

 

This production logo would really fit with our thriller film and we could definitely use this as inspiration when making ours. The dark background that looks like it has scratches on the background make it feel like it has an eerie feel about it and the plant pot could distract the audience into a false sense of security. I will definitely be keeping this production logo in mind when we make ours.

 

 

 

 

The Strada Film production logo is very simplistic but could have an impact on their audience, the logo looks like its a dark road and the blue and white colours are instantly recognisable with thriller films and I would associate this logo with the thriller genre. I really like how this logo is very simple but really set their audience up for knowing what the film could be about.

 

 

From the  research I have done on production logos I will be keeping in mind  Strada Films production logo and Grow Production because they really relate to what my thriller is about and give the genres of the films they produce to the audience and this makes them recognisable in certain  fields of media.

 

 

 

 

 

Shots we didn't include

In the video these are a variety of shots we didn't use because of reasons such as editing and lighting. In the night time shots it became hard to light the set as we didn't have the outdoor equipment that we needed. As a group we did try and use flashlights but it was very effective, however we did manage to get the lights reflect of the camera lense which added disorientation which we really liked and have kept in our final product. The reason most of the shots weren't effective is because we didn't have the equipment to follow the idea we wanted and didn't achieve the best possible look, the editing really hinder us as well with theses shots because they didn't follow a set pattern we needed.

Our thriller music(rough copy)

This is our thriller music on our opening, at the moment this isn't fully completed as we still need to add the soundtrack over the top of the base of opening music, adding the soundtrack of a slowed down version of "Your the one that I want" will added the thriller like sound to our thriller music.

Animatic

This is our animatic storyboard, each shot we have adapted when we were filming due to lighting restrictions.
 

Final Production Logo

This is our final production logo we decided to use this as we wanted to use a mysterious still to the logo this is shown to the colour red which connotes danger mystery and death. The picture behind the at production logo is what's going on in the actual scene behind, we were lucky enough to have a background at this time which was red, in one of our shots. We came up with the name Panic Production as we looked up words in a thesaurus that are associated with sinister, as a group we thought the alliteration of panic productions would stick in the minds of the audience through the P sounds. Although this is a simple production logo we thought we would stick with the natural idea as we didn't want the production logo to take away from the actual overall view of our thriller. I believe that this is an effective production logo as it clearly shows that we are only an independent film company that doesn't have the mainstream budget, but we could become well known through the use of a simple idea. 

Proof of making our thriller music

These are a few images of me making our thriller music and looking specifically at the different instruments that you can hear within the opening.

First look at our old filming.

Before we came up with our final idea for our thriller opening we didn't have a complete different storyline and a different approach on how to film it. We thought an abstract idea based around the hit show "Dexter" would be a really good way to approach this type of thriller. However it became very difficult because we didn't have any narrative and our storyboard wasn't really helping with what we were wanting to achieve, in the end we decided it would be best if we filmed a whole new thriller opening that took and naturalistic approach. In the clip below this is the beginning to the old thriller we were shooting, the editing for this thriller was a lot easier because we knew the direct effect we wanted it to have on our audience. This old thriller had a specific target audience of those who liked violence and crime and wouldn't appeal to our target audience of 16+