PRODUCTION COMPANY LOGO
I imported the logo into Adobe After Effects in the centre of the frame. I thought this would look good as its the main image that represents Apollo Productions.
ANIMATION & POSITION
The lyre is an instrument that uses strings so I thought that using an animation that mirrors the strings on the instrument would be quite effective. I added this animation on top of the movement of the logo from centre to left to make space for the word 'Apollo'.
FADE OUT
Once the logo is positioned on the left, the background of the logo fades out. I done this by placing the logo (with a transparent background) directly on top of it, so it isn't visible. Then, the opacity of the logo with the background changes from 100% to 0% over one second.
FADE OUT AND FADE IN
As the background of the logo fades out, the letters 'POLLO' fade in. This makes it clearer that the lyre is representing the letter A in the world Apollo.
FADE IN & POSITION
After the 'Apollo' is on screen, the word 'Productions' fades in, in the colour blue, to match our colour scheme. As the word fades in, everything within the frame moves up to the centre.
APOLLO PRODUCTIONS
The name of the production company sits on screen for a couple of seconds.
WIPE OUT
The 'Apollo' slides to the right and 'Productions' slides to the left. They both exit the frame.
BLACK SCREEN
The screen stays black for a few seconds to create a distinction between the Production Company and the Distribution Company
HERMES LOGO & 'H'
The first letter 'H' of Hermes appears within the frame with the logo used as one of the bars (as we designed prior to the making of the Ident). Each letter of Hermes appears one after the other.
DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
Once all letters of 'Hermes' has appeared, the word 'distribution' and 'company' also appear one after the other in a gold-orange colour, to match the sword in the logo.
FLASH
The words 'distribution company' flash to white and back to orange twice. I done by using a colour fill which lasted 0.1 seconds.
BLACK SCREEN
Everything blacks out and pauses before the film opening starts.
USING ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
FADE THE APOLLO LOGO OUT
The two gold diamonds are spaced one second apart. The first diamond has the opacity (of the image) set at 100% which means the logo is fully visible. The second diamond has the opacity set at 0% which means the image is not visible. The opacity of the logo would gradually reduce over the time between the two diamonds, in this case, one second.
FLASHING THE WORDS 'DISTRIBUTION COMPANY'
Each diamond represents a different colour. The first, third and fifth diamond are set to the colour orange so that the words will appear in an orange font. The second and fourth diamonds are set at white so that the writing will appear white. The diamonds are very closely together, to speed up the flashes of colour. As the curser is in between two diamonds, the colour appears to be a light yellow.
CREATING OUR IDENT
We used the internet and multiple youtube videos to learn how to use Adobe After Effects. Using the skills that she gained, she managed to produce an ident that we could use in our film opening. Our ident includes the production company and distribution company: Apollo and Hermes.