Logo ideas

LOGO IDEAS

Every film has a company logo to represent who they are and who the film is owned by.

We have been told to come up with our own logo as a group to make the beginning of our film seem more realistic for the viewers. As a group we thought it would a good idea to try and think of something that was linked to our story-line in a way, or find something similar that we all liked and change it in a way to make it our own. We decided to focus on company logos from horrors or psychological thrillers, these are what we came up with....

In the collage above you will see examples that we found such as Ghost house pictures, Paradox Productions, New line cinema, Lionsgate, Scream factory and a lot of other different types of logo designs. They are all fairly dark and have some connotations of mystery to them. The text used tends to be bold and have an airy or bloody effect to them, this gives it more of a sinister look and complements the picture. But in some cases there this isnt the case and its just plain text, i.e Dimension films and Revolt productions, despite there being no picture both logos have used text that stands out and still looks effective and clearly states which production company they are.

To create our logo we were told to use the software Adobe Photoshop, this is because it has been used by many other media years before us and it has correct tools that will enable us to create a good company logo for our films.

We have used the above company logos to influence us into what ours should look like, as a group we all sat down and brainstormed our thoughts for the logo and what we thought would be best and what would work best. Throughout our opening sequence you will notice that main character has a burn scar on her face, this is because she was caught in a house fire earlier on in her life. This is the source of which we all chose to base our logo image on to try represent and link it to our film. The name of the logo will be called 'BLAZE PICTURES'.. again to show that we are linking the burned face in the filming to the company logo. We are hoping to use a moving picture of fire so that we can try and make the logo stand out from everyone else's.

This is a example of what we were aiming our final logo to look like we used this as a template to plan out what we wanted to do, the name blaze came from the idea of a fire. Initially we are trying to work on getting a moving image up and then placing the text of blaze pictures, on top of it to give it more of a fierce and prominant look. We are also debating about whether to add a sound that will also compliment the logo, we were hoping to include the sound of a fire starting up and the sound of a flame crackling, this would bring our logo to life a bit more and allow is to portray the full effect of this image within our opening sequence.