RESEARCH: Production Logo

Most logos for companies are simply 2D and are still images, Media production logos on the other hand are often a moving graphical design as they are placed in the openings of movies and trailers etc where they are able to do so.

Examples of media production logos:

Twisted Pictures:



Twisted pictures are a well known company due to their success with the series of Saw films which they have made. This is a good logo to research as they are roughly in the same genre of films as I am planning to produce, horror/thriller.

The text used is a bold font and is all in lower caps, this surprised me as i would've thought generally companies would want to appear as big as possible. The background used is totally black and forms a drop shadow onto the text. There are only 3 main colours used, black, grey and brown. These are stereotypical colours of the horror genre because they are dull and have connotated to what people are scared of, such as darkness and the unknown. The animation involved is kept fairly simple but still makes an impact and is memorable to the viewer due to how unique it is when compared to other production logos. The idea of barbed wire being slowly tightened, ties in specifically with the films they are producing. The sound used is just a very simple winding noise to go eith the wire being tightened.

RESEARCH: Teaser Trailer

Though this teaser trailer isn't part of the horror genre it does however show the purpose of a teaser trailer very effectively. It shows absolutely no footage from the film at all, instead it chooses to just use quotes to suggest the basic idea to it. Along with this it has one word titles on screen that relate to specific themes in the film such as "GENIUS" 'TRAITOR" "BILLIONAIRE".

The purpose of a teaser trailer is to get the audience excited about a future film. It does this by giving very little away. It is instead the job of the feature trailer to actually inform about the storyline.

Propp's Approach to Narrative

Film: Blow

Villain- Diego Delgado

Donor- N/A

Helper- Pablo Escobar

Princess- Ermine Jung

Dispatcher- N/A

Hero- George Jung

False Hero- Derek Foreal