Studio Idents

Studio Idents

 Usually every film company has their logo which keeps on changing over the years. The most known companies has their logos for a long time and they are easily recognized. Others, indies, that are not recognized that easily also has their logos, however their history would not go as far.

 Here are some well known and not that popular companies and their logo's histories.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount is a worldwide film 

company making loads of 

blockbusters. This company 

started its logo from a 

black&white drawing in 1917 
and kept it that way until 
1967. Later on the drawing 
was changed into a picture 
that seems 

more alive. The colors were 

added in 1953 as well, the
logo was kept that way until
1975 and when the technology 
came out to be easy to use 
(in 2010) and editing was 
available the logo was changed 
with realistic pictures, 
brighter colors and 3D view.

DreamWorks

DreamWorks logo started of as a
boy on the moon. It came out 
through the imagination of Steven
Spielberg. The image was hand drawn.
Later on, the cloud cover was 
added as well. This was decided 
as the company and its popularity
was growing, the company wanted
to add some graphics on to their
logo to make it look more modern.
The logo used these days is not
much of a different from the first
ones, the only difference is the
colors. The letters in a name were
given different, bright colors,
as well as the clouds that were made
brighter as if they were changed from
the night time to day.

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures was founded in
1912. They didn't use an on-screen
logo until 1914. The second logo
was used at the time of 1924-1927.
The logo was changed a little bit
over the time. It was made to look
a little more live in 1936 and 
kept that way for 10 years until 
1946. The logo was made brighter 
then and stayed that way until 1963.
Then the colors were added and the
logo became bright. In the gap of 
this transformation there was a lot 
of tiny little changes made. The 
final logo that is used today as well
shows earth and stars around it as 
well as a word UNIVERSAL in capital 
letters covering the earth.

Film4 Production

Film4 is an independent film production company. This company supports the independent film makers. This 
company has a logo that is not 
recognized as easily worldwide 
but is well know in UK. There 
is not a lot of this logo history 
as there is no need for it to change.