Production company Deconstruction

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures was founded on 8th May 1912 by Jessie L. Lasky, William Wadsworth Hodkison, Adolph Zukor and is a US based film production company and is considered to be part of the top eight Hollywood film studios (others being 20th Century Fox, Walt disney,Paramount Pictures, Sony, Warner Brothers/New line Cinema, Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Marvel Studios) The Film production doesn't follow a particular style of genre and does a number of different films.

A few of it's famous, more popular films are: Star Trek, The Godfather, mission impossible, Forest Gump, Beverly hill cops, Transformers

The production company logo sequence (the 100th anniversary logo created for 2012) is a 21 second long animation piece. It has non-diegetic dramatic orchestral strings in the background as the camera follows stars that settle above the mountain. The title 'Paramount' zooming onto the screen afterwards. 

If I wanted to re-create this idea for a production company logo it would be difficult as we don't have the required CGI equipment and special effects to create this,however could be constructed through the use of a real life mountain, instead of an animated one.

Student made production company logo

This production opening sequence is short (only 9 seconds long) and makes use of minimal editing  and simple text. The filming done is of a bird flying in the sky and is edited so the screen spotlights the bird, before screencapping the image of the bird flying in a still image. In the background soft twinkly piano music is being played non-diegetically as well as the sound of birds squawking. The birds squawking parallels the image shown as well as being an easy sound clip to find and record for ourselves. the text used is simple white with no added effects. It transitions onto the screen by popping up and forming into the natural text shape. However despite how easy this would be to create I felt they could have made it more advanced with their editing by adding effects and more creative transition as it looks amateur.