HBO Feature Presentation: Difference between revisions

'''Opening:''' We start out with a space background with a light grid sheet rapidly moving across the bottom. Then, we see two triads of searchlights light up on the left and right sides, eventually crossing over each other. At the same time, {{Font color|blue|blue}} lights appear and many {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} rays rapidly move towards the screen, followed by {{Font color|blue|blue}} rays, {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} circles, {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} zigzags, colorful criss-cross lines, {{Font color|blue|blue}} and {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} straight lines, and finally wavy {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} lines with curvy {{color|red}} lines between them. Then we pan up to the searchlights, which move down to reveal a box of popcorn with many kernels shooting out. The screen cuts to a scene of five {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} popcorn kernels flying around the screen and falling down with a "shadow" effect, before they draw a marquee with several neon lines and designs (looking like that of the Orpheum or Pantages theater), and the camera zooms in below it. Then, the screen cuts to a plain black screen, and the stacked words "{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}" zoom out and pan down with a "shadow" effect, flashing when they settle on the background. After the flash dies down, lines appear behind each word, and the text turns {{color|red}}. Finally, the lines shine repeatedly.

'''Opening:''' On a space background with a gridded floor, we see several bright lights drawing in a stylized movie theater complete with a box office and a marquee with the text "'''H.B.O. FEATURE MOVIE'''" on both sides. We then zoom into a {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} star on the marquee, and the screen cuts to more bright lights drawing in the interior of the theater. As we slowly zoom in, a {{color|red}} curtain on the center rises to reveal a {{Font color|blue|blue}} pair of curtains, which open as the camera zooms in and it fades to the "{{Font color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text animating as usual.

'''Opening:''' On a black background, {{Font color|purple|purple}} streaks rain down the screen diagonally as we fade to see a {{Font color|gray|gray}} rounded rectangle with a neon {{Font color|pink|pink}} outline rotating and zooming out, with an ocean at the bottom of the screen. When it disappears, a {{Font color|blue|blue}} circular flash brings forth a series of {{color|gold}} bars that fly towards the screen at an angle. They eventually form a theater hallway with the ocean turning into a black floor, and a {{Font color|saddlebrown|brown}} screen quickly zooms in as the "{{Font color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text starts animating as usual.

'''Opening:''' As we start with a man tuning the cable on a TV set for a channel (to HBO) in his apartment as he settles down on the couch with his wife with several food items (i.e. a tub of popcorn, a pizza cut into slices etc.) in front of them. The camera pans backwards and outside the window to show a somewhat busy city intersection with figurines of vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk at twilight. The music starts, and the camera "flies" forward down the street, through several intersections. At one point you can even see a movie theater with "HBO THEATRE" on the marquee. We fly over some buildings before going into the suburbs, with lots of trees. We fly over several houses and a clock tower. Then the camera pans up into the sky, which briefly takes sunset hues before becoming {{Font color|blue|blue}} and black with a starfield. We go up into space, eventually panning up to reveal the source of the light; a star (positioned near the top center of the screen) that gets brighter and brighter, and eventually explodes in a {{Font color|orangered|scarlet}} and {{Font color|blue|blue}} gemstone-shaped flash, leaving behind a shiny chrome model monolith. The monolith moves down and across the screen and rotates clockwise, revealing that it is the HBO logo, then turns around one more time as the camera then zooms in on the side of the "{{Font color|silver|'''O'''}}". The side of the "{{Font color|silver|'''O'''}}" disappears in a flash of light, revealing a stream of {{color|red}}, {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} and {{Font color|blue|blue}} rays streaking counterclockwise around a {{Font color|silver|silver}} axis, and "{{Font color|violet|'''HBO FEATURE PRESENTATION'''}}", in a heavy, {{Font color|violet|lavender}} 3D "gaspipe" font and with each word stacked on top of the other (as well as a line under "{{Font color|violet|'''<u>PRESENTATION</u>'''}}"), appears against an array of {{Font color|purple|purple}} lines. Some more rays sweep across the words and shine, then the background fades to black with more flashes from the surrounding rays.

'''Opening:''' On a black-{{Font color|darkred|reddish}} gradient background, we see a translucent filmstrip that has a {{Font color|deepskyblue|blue}} circle with lines dividing it in four quadrants in the style of a movie countdown on its center. Squares fly through its sprocket holes, and a circular light beam shines below its center, starting a countdown of the letters "'''H'''", "'''B'''", and "'''O'''". As this happens, the camera pans to the left and slowly zooms in on the countdown with the beam of light extruding through the circle. After the "'''O'''" appears, the circle turns into an "'''O'''" and another "'''O'''" flies through the film strip and the beam of light with several "'''O'''"s appearing and flying behind it. More light beams appear on the left and right as everything turns {{Font color|blue|blue}}, and the screen scrolls to a stone platform where the "'''O'''"s land, after which the screen pans out to reveal it’s part of the word "{{Font color|gold|'''ORIGINAL'''}}" with {{Font color|dodgerblue|blue}} lines above and below. As this happens, the words "{{Font color|violet|'''THE HBO'''}}" scroll in from the left and rest above "{{Font color|gold|'''ORIGINAL'''}}" and the camera zooms out to reveal the word "{{Font color|violet|'''MOVIE'''}}" below it. The platform has two sets of four light beams, one arranged vertically on the top left corner and the second arranged horizontally above the word "{{Font color|violet|'''HBO'''}}". A filmstrip scrolls up behind the logo as a spotlight passes through it twice.

'''Opening:''' In a widescreen effect (with the letterbox bars having a black and {{Font color|blue|blue}} background), we see the white words "'''FEATURE PRESENTATION'''" appear over the HBO logo, which is in one of many situations (like the ITV "Hearts" idents from the same time). For example, one scenario involves the HBO logo inside a limo with several paparazzi stumbling to get to the limo and taking several pictures. Another features the camera panning around a skyscraper to reveal the top of the skyscraper is in the shape of the HBO logo (an influence on the next logo). Finally, another one shows the HBO logo in a fish tank.