10 Mar 2014

Construction of Ident

We had the name Reflection Studios, and idea of what ident we could have to represent our production company but now it was time to actually create the ident to put at the beginning of our film before the on screen action commenced.

Our ident needed to represent the idea of reflection where by our name reflected in some way or another whether it be in a mirror or the idea we had in the first place which was a lake. 

We used 'Adobe After Effects' to create the river style reflection we wanted to reflect our production company. Here is where the creative idea of reflecting the name of our production company came from.



 The effects were chosen and the name entered so that when it was played the name was reflected in the river as designed previously when researching about idents. 

Once the ident had been created, some idents do have music over the top of them and so we found a piece of music that sounded relaxing and smooth as if you were sitting by a river or looking down at the reflection and so thought it would be appropriate to place over the top of our ident.
Here is the sound we chose for our ident.



Now this is what the final ident looks like.



We also have a second ident called 'Rocket Films' which again has an ident to reflect the name. This is often what production companies do, they pick their name and design their ident around it. In this case we created an ident in the style of a rocket or firework. 

This too was done in 'Adobe After Effects' and then the sound added later. We thought it would be a good idea to stick to something simple and so had a firework sound as the ident appeared on screen.

And so here is Rocket Films ident.

So these idents are added to the beginning of the film. Now its time to continue editing the footage and sound ready for the final cut of The Black Widow.