TELEVISION STATION I.D.'s
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Since the advent of multi channel pay TV, and with the approach of digital broadcasting by free to air networks, channel branding has become more and more crucial. blarter music has been commissioned by several pay TV channels to write music appropriate to each of their target audiences, to strengthen the image and placement of each of the channels. These include TV1, MTV, The Comedy Channel, Fox 8 & Nickelodeon.
Under each image below are links to examples of station I.D.'s we've composed. See the notes in the Technical Tips window if they won't play for you. |
TV 1
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blarter music has written all of the music for TV1 for over 12 months. TV1 plays "Televisions Greatest Hits" from retro greats (I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Mission Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch) to contemporary classics (Seinfeld, Mad About You, Xena-Warrior Princess, Star Trek-Next Generation).
To complement these shows TV1 requires music which fuses styles from the past with contemporary elements, to give it a present day edge. Blarter music has repeatedly achieved this, with music for six different campaigns, as well as two TV shows (more details behind theTV Shows link on the left).
Featured on this page are the main themes from the last three of their image campaigns (audio only), and two 10" bumpers from a set of five completed last year (these have a .mov version as well as an audio version). For more information on TV1, here is a link to TV1's website. (Samples and images published here with the kind permission of TV1 Entertainment Partners.)
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TV1's COOL SUMMER
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CHANNEL YOUR ENERGY INTO ONE!
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LOVE THEME FROM TV1 id 60"
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MOVE YOUR SWEET FEET id 10"
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SOLID STATE TELEVISION id 10"
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MTV
| Lars Magnus Holmgren, a Mad Swede working at the late Conja, pitched some ideas for channel branders to MTV. blarter music was asked by Conja to compose music/sound design tracks for two of them. It was the perfect brief: just do whatever you want, make it as bent as possible. One of the results "Frankenskippy", is below.
It's been left at a higher resolution because it deserves it. Frankenskippy has won gold awards at VEAF (Vancouver effects and Animation Festival), and The Chicago Intercom/Cinema Festival, and Silver at Australian Promax for best Computer Animated I.D. in August '99. It was also accepted into Atom, Blackchair, Darklight and Siggraph.
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FRANKENSKIPPY id 30"
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NICKELODEON'S "COW HEAD" CLOSER
| This little beauty won a Silver Award at Promax '98 in the Non-Promotional Animation category. It is still played nightly worldwide as the closer for Nickelodeon when it changes to Nick At Night. If anyone can make any sense of it please email me what it all means.
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FOX 8
| FOX 8 is Foxtel's youth oriented general entertainment channel. It features shows such as The X-Files, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Party of Five and Law and Order. blarter music was commissioned by FOX 8 to compose and record a series of five station I.D's. They wanted the music to be youthful and edgey, to reflect and enhance the flavour of the programming. Two of the five are shown below.
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FOX ART id 10"
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FOX GAMES id 10"
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