Independent Research On Film Openings

For my independent film opening research I am going to look at how production companies logo's and how they have been used at the beginning of films. Being a mainstream film you want your logo to stand out and be recognisable for people when they watch a film. This means that it has to be big, eye catching and impressive. The example I am going to use is Warner Bros intro. As you can see by the video it clearly stands out and is recognisable for viewers when they hear the music start to play and the big gold rings spinning around the screen to form the logo. This would have cost a lot of money to create as the animation wouldn't have been cheep, and getting someone to produce the music would also have cost a lot of money, however being a mainstream company they can afford to do things like this. As Warner bros owns some of the biggest and most popular films they can afford to do specialised logo's for specific films. A good example of this is the logo that they had created for the Harry Potter films and they changed each time a film was created. As you can see by the video below you can see 

that they had changed the music and the colour of the logo to fit the film. Again as they are a mainstream film they can afford to do this. This will help us when it comes to making our film because as we are a mainstream production company it means that we are able to re-create our self one and make our company look more professional. This would involve us animating a logo to play at the beginning of our film.