ident research

I have begun to search into TV idents to explore what they are really about and see how they work.

Below here are some videos which are useful in getting an idea for my own.

This one above here are TV idents from 2008 made for BBC 2.  The first thing I noticed about them is the length.  Each one is very short and snappy.  Most of the idents are completely different from each other with no overall theme.  However there is one where the cyclists are cycling round the BBC 2 circle then the BBC 2 logo appears inside.  This is the only one I can think they have re-created.  Keeping the circle in the middle, instead of using cyclists there is one where hippos are swimming around in the circle.  The actual content is different but the style is the same.  Since I will be creating 2-4 idents, this is good to know that maybe I can do the same.  I will have to speak with Val about an overall theme or weather she would prefer it is they were all individual different ones. Part of the brief says as an idea maybe you can have a different season focus over all of them so this is something to speak with Val about. 

This one above is interesting because the idents represent 60 years of idents on the BBC.  It was interesting how far they have come along from the first few ideas.  Its clear that a lot of them have been used again years later, just updated versions.  A clear one was the globe spinning on it's axis.