Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is an American production company that
was founded on April 17th 1924 by Marcus Loew, an entertainment
entrepreneur that gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis
B. Mayer Pictures.
Famous films include the 007 James Bond films since 1981,
The Hobbit trilogy and 21 & 22 Jump Street. It is also famous for many of
the earlier episodes of Tom and Jerry.
The intro starts off in the lion’s eye and zooms out to
reveal a shiny gold banner – that looks like a film reel – with the lion’s head
in the middle of a circle in the centre, roaring. There are Latin words in the
circle that mean ‘art for art’s sake’. There is no sound apart from the lion
roaring. The typography for the production title is thin, gold, serif writing that
makes it look classy and professional.
It would be quite easy to make something like
this – a simple banner with writing above, on and around it, however we would
not be able to get any animals like that to be in it.
School-made production company
There is a picture of an eerie forest with the moon very
bright in the upper middle of the screen with non-diegetic sinister music that consisted of strings plays in
the background. The background is black and has white serif writing that says ‘Sylvanus
Productions’ and fades in and out.
This is a good school production company logo that
would be easy to replicate. It conveys the genre of the film well yet is still only
seven seconds long, and very simple.
Advantages
Advantages
- easy to replicate
- sound is simple and easily found or made
- it conveys the film genre well
Disadvantages
- it doesn't have any special effects
- the font didn't seem right for the company - it looked like nice handwriting rather than crooked writing or a serif font
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