Evolution Media: Difference between revisions

=== Background ===

Evolution Media is a production company generally focused on non-fiction television programming, although they have very occasionally dabbled in scripted media. In July 2017, they were acquired by [[MGM Television]]. Their logos can be viewed on their website [http://evolutionusa.com/about/ here].

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'''Logo:''' In a time-lapse live-action video, we see two men spray-painting a wall black and then create an abstract globe against it. The company's name briefly flashes and the two men spray-paint "{{Font color|red|'''EVOLUTION'''}}", with "{{Font color|red|FILM + TAPE, INC.}}" below it, over the globe in {{Font color|red|red}}, before spray-painting it white.

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'''Logo:''' On a background that changes to show various videos of random objects, the {{Font color|silver|silver}}-like word "{{Font color|silver|'''EVOLUTION'''}}" emerges and stays in the middle.

'''Variant:''' On the 1998 HBO special, ''Paul F. Thompkins Driven to Drink'', the logo is still; the 1995 HBO Independent Productions logo would follow after.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A fast breakbeat (the "Industrapper" drum loop off Spectrasonics' Distorted Reality 1 sample CD) with weird-sounding yells ("Wailer" off Spectrasonics' Distorted Reality 1sample CD).

'''Availability:''' Extinct.

*This was seen on ''Bug Juice'' when it was last aired on Disney Channel in the Summer of 2004, ''The Making of...'' episodes, and it was probably seen on ''Totally Hoops'' and ''Totally Circus''.

*It's also seen on ''Screen Gems Network''.

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'''Logo:''' On a black/{{Font color|blue|blue}} gradient background, we see a box containing an abstract drawing of a fist holding a metallic rod, chiseled through a metallic bracket. The result looks like a stylized "E". The stacked text "{{Font color|silver|'''EVOLUTION''' FILM & TAPE, INC.}}", with "{{Font color|silver|'''EVOLUTION'''}}" in a chiseled font and much bigger than the rest of the text, fades in underneath.

'''Availability:''' Like the first logo, it's unknown what shows used this logo, but once again it can be viewed on Evolution's website.

===4th Logo (June 3, 2001- )===

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'''Logo:''' On a {{Font color|orangered|red-orange}} background with a wheel moving behind it, we see a thick shiny vertical line, on the left. A stylized hand then thrusts a wooden rod into the line, and we zoom out to reveal that the line is actually the letter "{{Font color|silver|'''E'''}}" without the middle stem, then a black bar with the text "{{Font color|silver|'''EVOLUTION'''}}", in the same font as before, in the center. "{{Font color|silver|'''EVOLUTION'''}}" slowly spaces out.

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* Starting in 2006, the logo was enhanced in CGI, with the text now in shiny {{Font color|silver|silver}} and the background having more movement in it. It was also enhanced again in 2018.