Research

Before i start with this one i just want you to know this is 2 weeks worth in one blog, cause i missed the first one i guess this i the best chance to catch up!

First on the agenda, was the research into general indents of TV shows, the only way i honestly researched this was using youtube.com as it was the best source for seeing a vast amount of indents. I looked into E4, BBC3 and also BBC. A few links for these are below:

Channel 4 The Simpsons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdA0qP6fxtU
Channel 4 Tokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9PhF2S5UVk
BBC indents until 7th october 06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPulV2YX-Zw
BBC new indent montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofTBnuXpa-8
BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCEbl_-EJo
BBC2 indents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA18ZkIB5i8
Toonami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFqto_0pS8
LWT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVH_Z_0pmA

I know theres a few there, but i just wanted you to know what i've looked at! I also looked at E4 as i mentioned, which are very cleverly done.

After doing this i looked into Kerrang slightly more, trying to find out as much as i could on them by using the internet. I found some images that show the Kerrang logo and i also found an image of one of their adverts. I also took a screenshot of the website to help get an idea of their overall image. The images are posted below:

Kerrang Logo

Kerrang TV advert

Screenshot of Kerrang TV website

I also found a video of an advert from Kerrang TV posted on youtube.com which displays their current image for the adverts.

Kerrang Comp Advert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UwfdEepdI

From all of this research i have made a few observations of what they use in their advertising:

Sounds: Ace of Spades by Motorhead & also a distorted guitar is used that plays a kerrang theme music.

Colours: Yellow & Black

Images: For the images they use video footage, and then they add different objects to them (e.g in the images above they add panda heads to the cheerleaders). They also use different objects like mouths for titles and changing backgrounds, like in the video in the link.

Text: The main text is always very distorted, but still easily readable. The Kerrang logo is always on their adverts.

I'm going to go do some rough designs based on all of this now while im in design mode. Hope this is all good, any suggestions just let me know!