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Idents you like

Started by BlodwynPig, August 04, 2018, 06:21:20 PM

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BlodwynPig

I love Idents, often much better than the TV/Film/music video package that follow them.

The golden age of Idents was the late 80s and early 90s for me. My favourite is this one for Polygram Music Video that I first saw on Yello's The Race VHS tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9geynr6XLpc

That soaring, swooping 80's sheen is what I enjoy most.

See also Viacom 1986 and 1990

https://youtu.be/RS7i2k54mx4?t=9

The slightly twee Village Roadshow is also decent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZaTviqURc

but their earlier one has a Tangerine Dream menace synth about it, which is much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfYLlf8ZNHM

However, the master has to be THX's Vangelis in the morgue synth stab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JEywt7jRdE

Boom - you've got my attention.

Nevertheless, I also like the soundless idents, with Paramount possibly being the most well known. Especially in a darkened theatre, really gets the anticipation juices flowing as long as you are not about to watch some daft comedy or animation.

The worst have to be the fanfare/pomp/showstyle ones of the major companies like 21st Century Fox, Warner, Disney etc.

PowerButchi

Channel 4's original blocks with the Dundas sting is top for me Clive, specially the amounts of variants with everything from sumo to american football. I appluad Channel 4 for going back to a version of the fourscore music again, but I stiull don't think they've ever, or ever will beat the orginal blocks.



And of course - THE ANGLIA KNIGHT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u02ZP0TiNU

Loved the old 70s ATV one.  I was fascinated by those three different-coloured circles growing to intersect and turning into the two intersecting ovals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNlBJWTXkh0

Twed

I love idents too. Very happy about this thread.

My favourite ones are the ones that suggest that there's more than branding going on. It's the imagery of a higher intelligence, establishing its benevolent (for now) relationship with you. The ATV one Phoenix posted is a good example.

This OU one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrLVF_8SkE

That is a knowingeye.

olliebean

Quote from: Phoenix Lazarus on August 04, 2018, 06:53:53 PM
Loved the old 70s ATV one.  I was fascinated by those three different-coloured circles growing to intersect and turning into the two intersecting ovals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNlBJWTXkh0


Love this one. The descending major triad used by London Underground to preface their station announcements always makes me think of the second half of this, and whenever I hear it I can never resist completing the tune by humming the final three notes to myself. Aldi also plays a descending major triad in their stores sometimes, but without an announcement - just the three notes, repeating every few seconds, and I find myself repeatedly singing "da - da-dah" to myself as I do my shopping.

Quote from: Twed on August 04, 2018, 07:29:00 PMThis OU one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrLVF_8SkE

That is a knowingeye.

That one always freaked me the fuck out.

Clownbaby

That really rare Jonathan Glazer one for Channel 4 recently where it's a strange tribal crystal faced ghoul dancing manically on the spot by a mossy rock, and it only shows up late at night

Pseudopath

The ident for The Video Collection is so 80s it hurts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hiooxT9rZw. As a kid I remember thinking that the black TV screen floating into the camera would be the perfect transition into the 'feature presentation', but the animator obviously fucked up and had to tack the logo onto the end.

Obligatory shout out to The Incredible World of DiC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTBBNVwz5Dc

Pseudopath

Quote from: Clownbaby on August 04, 2018, 08:23:49 PM
That really rare Jonathan Glazer one for Channel 4 recently where it's a strange tribal crystal faced ghoul dancing manically on the spot by a mossy rock, and it only shows up late at night

No wonder.

mothman

The ATV one is definitely my favourite. For some reason I keep thinking it's Tyne Tees though.

lgpmachine

Always liked this one from a Thunderbirds VHS I had as a kid.  Back in the early 90s the idea of there being a Channel 5 seemed like a mysterious and exciting impossibility, as opposed to today's reality of programmes about poor people having their homes repossessed.

After a few years of heavy use the tape had started to wear out at the ident sequence which added a nice additional layer of distortion to the already slightly unsettling music and sounds.

https://youtu.be/9j0flwxw0Vo

mjwilson

All the BBC2 ones before (original) Twin Peaks.

Twed

Quote from: mjwilson on August 05, 2018, 08:39:42 PM
All the BBC2 ones before (original) Twin Peaks.
Did they have special Twin Peaks idents? I'm surprised BBC2 was where they showed Twin Peaks, I would have expected C4.

Those Red Dwarf scutter ones have stuck around in memory for longer than they deserve. Really ugly, in a time period where BBC 2 idents were pretty timeless, atmospheric and good.

mjwilson

Quote from: Twed on August 05, 2018, 08:55:10 PM
Did they have special Twin Peaks idents? I'm surprised BBC2 was where they showed Twin Peaks, I would have expected C4.

Just the regular BBC2 indents, but in my mind they're indelibly linked to Peaks.

(And I bet if C4 had shown it, they wouldn't have interrupted it to show snooker for 3 weeks.)

mothman

#13
Quote from: mjwilson on August 05, 2018, 09:20:54 PM
Just the regular BBC2 indents, but in my mind they're indelibly linked to Peaks.

Me too! Even 28 years later... OK, they moved on from them for a while, but have come back to them; it's amazing they've been using the same set of idents (albeit on and off) for nearly 3 decades. I doubt there can be many TV channels anywhere that can say the same.

EDIT: OK, so reading more in the Wiki they were retired in 2001, but brought back in 2014. Still a long time though.

Twed

Which ones were they using around the Twin Peaks time, though? I wasn't aware of it at the same (slightly too young).

I'm seeing the white gradient BBC 2 logo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhi0IjvHiVY) in a lot of trailer stuff. Were the idents the same?

mothman

No, the coloured 'TWO' on white was the previous branding, it changed at around this time, sometime in late 1990. The oldest ones I remember were the 2 falling down to embed in something, the swirly 2, and the 2 with sparks flying off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two_'1991%E2%80%932001'_idents

OK, it was actually early '91...

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Pseudopath on August 04, 2018, 08:29:22 PM
The ident for The Video Collection is so 80s it hurts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hiooxT9rZw. As a kid I remember thinking that the black TV screen floating into the camera would be the perfect transition into the 'feature presentation', but the animator obviously fucked up and had to tack the logo onto the end.

Obligatory shout out to The Incredible World of DiC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTBBNVwz5Dc

My preferred Video Collection one - again that sweeping synth and the feeling you've just been tossed into the centre of Michael Mann's The Keep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6X65T27obw

Twed

Quote from: mothman on August 05, 2018, 10:31:09 PM
No, the coloured 'TWO' on white was the previous branding, it changed at around this time, sometime in late 1990. The oldest ones I remember were the 2 falling down to embed in something, the swirly 2, and the 2 with sparks flying off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two_'1991%E2%80%932001'_idents

OK, it was actually early '91...
Oh okay. Definitely the best era and some of the best idents ever made IMO. Genuinely striking and timeless.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: lgpmachine on August 05, 2018, 11:17:33 AM
Always liked this one from a Thunderbirds VHS I had as a kid.  Back in the early 90s the idea of there being a Channel 5 seemed like a mysterious and exciting impossibility, as opposed to today's reality of programmes about poor people having their homes repossessed.

After a few years of heavy use the tape had started to wear out at the ident sequence which added a nice additional layer of distortion to the already slightly unsettling music and sounds.

https://youtu.be/9j0flwxw0Vo

another great one.


mothman

Quote from: madhair60 on August 05, 2018, 10:46:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuN5QiUk00E

ATV great of course. Then once it's Central it does start to get quite good-looking... and then the graphics go really south all of a sudden! Awful CGI. Then it starts ripping off the classic C4 idents; and what the fuck was the last one?! It looked like it was in the Hyperspace effect used in Babylon 5...

Consignia

Gotta love this ITV Schools ident: https://youtu.be/_9NzqmlcJpc?t=59 Largely because it meant a dos watching a video rather doing actual school work.

#22
YES mate.








Sebastian Cobb

Loved the original Ch4 one.



Tri Star, can't find a good gif of the winged horse.



Sebastian Cobb



One of my old housemates (he's dead now) went to school with a lad who's grandfather was one of the Rank gong men.

Chriddof

This is The Video Collection ident I remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nnLynXXr-E

And there's also Thames Television's in-house video label, Thames Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyR__754DTc

...which later gained some sort of un-explained link between themselves and The Video Collection, and resulted in them amending their ident and label name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_zl959TJtc

(...at the same time they also had to bear some ugly generic box art with that version of the Thames logo and the TVC logo set against green and red and black rectangles or something - it's been decades since I saw some examples of this so I'll have mis-remembered that)

Sebastian Cobb

Not quite an ident as such, but:


Chriddof

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 06, 2018, 12:28:57 AM
Eerie logo tunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y024F1PhweQ&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVAyFuxK8c&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzq3nlYlLFQ&frags=pl%2Cwn


https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,68121.msg3557100.html#msg3557100

Further to the above, you may want to listen to Mordant Music's Dead Air, a concept album about a bombed-out TV station with Thames TV announcer Phillip Elsmore as the narrator (or rather, continuity announcer). I mention this because one of the track features a quick yet brilliant use of one of the above ident jingles.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Chriddof on August 06, 2018, 12:32:20 AM
This is The Video Collection ident I remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nnLynXXr-E


Shit. Too much pomp. Bargain basement 80s shite. Kwik-Save. Fine-Fare. Shite.