Scare Factor

Hello, I’m Eric, and I’m introducing now as a FTVLM blogger. You’ll maybe don’t know who I am until I tell you that I am also know as CPvGc80 or LogicalSmash, you know me then? Right, so now I’ll be writing Blogs for the FTVLM. Hope you’ll enjoy reading them

There are logos that makes the viewer feel pleased and relax, those logos that doesn’t have very bright colours, have a peaceful tune or a quiet animation. It seems that viewers sometimes tends to forget that logo, (well if they’ve watched it, because nowdays, more TV Stations are starting to delete logos at the end of broadcasts) they’ll remember most the moments of the show or the movie.

But what do you think about a logo that has a eerie piece of music, terrible in-your-face animation, or only because its set on a black background. People sometimes don’t bother on closing logos, but a logo that “scares” you, is more effective, as the viewer would remember that logo more than a peaceful logo. But are those logos we know as “scary logos” really annoying? For example, the Lorimar “Line of Doom” logo, don’t know why people are scared by this logo. The music is peaceful and elegant, it hasn’t got that in-your-face animations that other logos have, and the concept is fine. It’s all in people’s mind. If you see that logo on TV (not some of the dreadful copies that are on YouTube with awful quality and high volume), you’ll think it’s a clever logo, pretty nice actually.  Another example, the Universal’s infamous “Globe of Doom”, why,  and tell me WHY is some people annoyed by this? The Revue theme is in my opionion one of the best themes composed for a logo, it really represents Universal, and the fonts used are really nice for its time. So, maybe it’s because the logo is dark? I don’t know. Another example I like to talk about is the “V of Doom”. Ok, the desing is a bit disappointing and the music is terrible, but it’s not that bad. I saw it recently on TV at TCM, at the end of “I Love Lucy”, and didn’t scare me at all. So in my opinion, scary logos aren’t not that bad. It’s true that are some logos that the desing is terrible, it has annoying jingles and terrible and choppy animations, but if you want to classify the scare factor of a logo on “High” or “Nightmare”, make sure you have or you’ve seen a high quality copy of that logo.

That’s it. Thanks for reading.
Eric S.