Logo Ideas

Using the research i gathered from the three logo's, i made a rough draft of what my own logo could look like. My initial design includes a black door with a doorframe. Taking inspiration from the doors in my own house, a square pattern is shown with white lines. There is also a doorknob that is represented with a white circle. The name, "BlackOut Pictures" Bisects the door. The lettering is black over the lighter sections of the image, and over the black parts of the door i made the lettering white. I tried to centre all the text so there was an equal amount Hanging off of either side. Above the door i included the text "Vereor Quod Fides" Which is latin for "Respect And Assurance.", a slogan for the company. Underneath the main image i have put the parent company, as it seems common practice to do so. To finish off the logo i gave it a grainy background and a thick black boarder. This is meant to evoke images of silent movies and add a sense of horror to the overall image, as it harks back to films such as "Nosferatu" and "The Phantom of the Opera"

This logo is a more simple, text based design than my previous. Rather than cutting through a complicated shape, i had the words change colour over the companies initials. The line on the right of the "P" is to add some kind of symmetry to the whole shape. However i wanted to tip the balance of symmetry by adding the logo underneath the "P". By placing it to the right and making it smaller, western audiences will assume it is less important than the large central image. Once again i have kept to a black and white colour scheme to add a sense of age or foreboding to the somewhat bright image.

Returning to the gritty grey of the Background, i attempted to make the text look as if was exploding with ink or something similar. This is to emphasise the dark content of the film. The grey "Clouds" are there to evoke a sense of misery, because an overcast day is usually portrayed as miserable. This use of pathetic fallacy is only used to heighten the foreboding of the distorted text. Because the parent company may not want to be associated with the gritty image i am trying to get across, there is a thin black line between the two names.