All film studios have idents in order to make themselves stand out and give an impression of what type of studio they are. These have varying design and can either be as simple as a picture or a short motion. Film studios such as "Warner Bros" are very well known,and there are others such as "Paramount Vantage" which are known, but not on a bigger scale. Each ident is different are easily identifiable. The "Warner Bros" ident shows an infamous shield made out of a hard metal with their studios name on it. With this ident the studio are trying to portray that they are powerful, dominant and important. This gives us the impression that their studio is right at the top and we can expect good, high quality productions from them.
The ident of "Columbia Pictures" has to represent their studio and also stand out. They have to make themselves look powerful, creative and offer an insight to the type of studio they are. By doing this it gives us a little bit information of what we can expect from the studio. Another ident is "Film 4 Productions". This is a British indie studio that is owned by Channel 4. Unlike some idents Film 4 adjust their logo depending on what film they have produced. For example if they had produced and action film they would have an explosion in the background of their ident. This ingenious idea is very creative and this is what most idents aim to do.
"Paramount Vantage" is an indie ident because it is not a big studio ident. Paramount Vantage is a film division from Paramount pictures. They also have an ident so that they can be identified, but instead of having such a detailed meaningful ident they just have an easy, simple ident. This is because they are not at the top of the film industry but they still create films which some may say are just as good.
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