Task 3: Understanding the design of a suite of television idents

What is a suit of indents ? 

A suit of indents is different designs and clips or music for the same channel ident. Each one is linked by a different theme.They can have different types of audiences for example young people, or more for middle ages people. These themes could be important events going on in society or the the whole world such as Christmas. or just different seasons such as summer, spring and winter.Also they could have different indents for different times of the day, such as morning, midday or night time.

Most indents that are on in the morning tend to be more relaxing than exciting or fun, to match the mood of the viewer and for the midday it can be exciting and at night time more relaxed or can be more for adults as the shows and programmes change when it becomes late.

Different BBC one Idents 

I am going to show you and explain the different types of idents for this particular Channel which is BBC one. During all year round the idents of BBC one change due to different events or different times of the year. Here are some different idents;



- Here as you can see is a Ident which relates to Christmas. In this ident you can see that there is snow and people dressed up in winter clothes, and many christmas trees. This would instantly remind the viewer that it is christmas and this makes the ident for the christmas period very successful. 

- Here is a ident which relates to the London 2012 olympics. In this ident there is the famous olympics logo and this shows us that the BBC is going to be Broadcasting the games. This ident is very eligent and simple. 

- This here is a sports related idents, there are many of these idents, and they change every year to refresh and keep the channel new and more interesting.






As you can they are similar to the size of the font and the colours, if you look at the first and third one, the font is the same but just layer out different due to the design of the indents, background. This has to be thought out because if there is a background that has the same colour as the font colour you would not be able to see the font, so they have to take this into consideration.

Two different music channel indents  

I am going to choose two different music channel indents to how much information they are giving to the viewers that are watching the channel. How long they are on screen for, what the onscreen tempo is, how it interacts with the viewers and Whether it is information-led or entertainment led. These two channels are 4music and VIVA. 

VIVA
As you can VIVA have chosen a very eye catching colour scheme in which if you were to see the  colours again you would instantly remember VIVA. The pink and green colours have never been used before so this is a good way of getting noticed.

It does not give out much information but you will know it is for the music channel that they have. You can see that the slogan for the channel is 'up your VIVA'. This is a very catchy slogan that has been made.

This is successful because viewers will say it, and there for it is successful. This viva Ident is only on for a short amount of time, and during this time the channel tells the viewers what is going to be on next and on later. 

4Music

4Music is the second music channel I am going to compare. As you also see, it is not just a plain ident.It 's theme as you can see is summer, because of the pool and clear skies.