HBO Feature Presentation: Difference between revisions

'''Opening:''' TBA.

'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA.

'''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, {{color|blue}} lights appear and many {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} rays rapidly move towards the screen, followed by {{color|blue}} rays, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} circles, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} zigzags, colorful criss-cross lines, {{color|blue}} and {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} straight lines, and finally wavy {{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 {{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.

'''Music/Sounds:''' An orchestral fanfare that sounds very similar to the ''Star Wars'' theme, with the last portion sounding eerily similar to ''Star Trek''<nowiki/>'s theme.

'''Opening:''' The camera travels down an infinite loop of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where we see several movie-related items (i.e. a glass slipper, a box of popcorn, a soda bottle, etc.) on the left and right sides of the screen. We then zoom into a screen that shows a color-changing background and the aforementioned objects moving around while briefly morphing into blobs, before cutting back to the Walk of Fame where we see a box office gradually zooming in as the sky turns to a night sky and searchlights move around it. When the box office comes close to the screen, it cuts to the "{{color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text animating as usual.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A jazzy version of the fanfare that fits rather well with the bumper.

'''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 {{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 {{color|blue}} pair of curtains, which open as the camera zooms in and it fades to the "{{color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text animating as usual.

'''Music/Sounds:''' An alternate version of the fanfare used in the first logo of the time, only slower and louder.

'''Opening:''' On a space background, we pan through and around many abstract shapes of various colors and sizes, some of which light up. At one point, a circle with a star passes by the shapes, with a bubble trail passing through them shortly after. After a while, a stylized {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} screen moves in from the right and we zoom into it as it starts showing the "{{color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text animating as usual.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A bouncy techno version of the fanfare.

'''Opening:''' We see a futuristic-like city at twilight, and we pan to the left where we see a neon movie theater with searchlights scanning the sky. Then we zoom into the entrance and see a bird's-eye view of the theater, lit in {{color|saddlebrown|brown}} and {{color|orange}}. We slowly zoom into the projection screen and the camera fades to the "{{color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text animating as usual.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A rather moody, funky, and smooth version of the fanfare.  

'''Opening:''' On a black background, {{color|purple}} streaks rain down the screen diagonally as we fade to see a {{color|gray}} rounded rectangle with a neon {{color|pink}} outline rotating and zooming out, with an ocean at the bottom of the screen. When it disappears, a {{color|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 {{color|saddlebrown|brown}} screen quickly zooms in as the "{{color|red|{{Font|Impact|HBO FEATURE MOVIE}}}}" text starts animating as usual.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A relaxing synth version of the fanfare mixed with drums.

*On HBO Hungary in the mid-90s, a bumper has the full logo playing as normal until the end where the HBO logo fades away before the rays appeared, then a still "HBO" logo appeared in front of the space background.

'''Music/Sounds:''' The sounds of the TV in the opening scene (beginning with a TV host saying "On your big bonus question for..." before getting cut off when the man changes the channel), then some honking horns and city noises (or, in the short version, a whoosh, and the fog variant contains wind sounds) A piano/string chord is heard, which leads into a dramatic orchestral theme that gets progressively more tense. When the star explodes, phasing sounds are heard, culminating in a very loud, upbeat, almost disco-style horn-driven overture, ending with synth sweeps (representing the rays "inside" the "O"). Composed by Ferdinand J. Smith with a 65-man orchestra.

*Most other foreign versions of the channel probably have "movie" written in their own native language as well.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A loud electric guitar tune, which culminates into a brief, funky new wave theme that at the very end ends with another electric guitar strum and a twinkling fade-out.  

'''Opening:''' On a {{color|blueviolet|violet}}/white CGI background with a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} floor, we see many colored shapes zooming through the screen. A black rectangle zooms in slowly and settles on a stack of other rectangles on a black base, as two more rectangles fly in and stack themselves above it, and a {{color|deeppink|hot pink}} HBO logo rises up from it. As the camera starts rotating, the {{color|gold}} words "{{color|gold|'''SPECIAL PRESENTATION'''}}" zoom out with a shadow effect and plaster themselves on the front of the base, and the camera stops on a slight angle (a la 20th Century Fox).

'''Music/Sounds:''' A synthesized rock fanfare with guitar and drums.

'''Opening:''' On a black-{{color|darkred|reddish}} gradient background, we see a translucent filmstrip that has a {{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 {{color|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 "{{color|gold|'''ORIGINAL'''}}" with {{color|dodgerblue|blue}} lines above and below. As this happens, the words "{{color|violet|'''THE HBO'''}}" scroll in from the left and rest above "{{color|gold|'''ORIGINAL'''}}" and the camera zooms out to reveal the word "{{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 "{{color|violet|'''HBO'''}}". A filmstrip scrolls up behind the logo as a spotlight passes through it twice.

'''Music/Sounds:''' It begins with an electric guitar solo that segues into a synthesized rock piece with bells heard as the "O"s fly down and synched with the "O"s landing on top of each other.

*There were five 15-second versions of the opening where the globe bounces on one layer before the first layer returns.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A calypso/rock theme with a voiceover saying "Blockbuster movies. Original movies!" (cheering) "Boxing." (Series 1000 boxing ring bell sound effect) (boxing commentator mentions "Holyfield") "Big music events." (few guitar notes, voice, cheering) "HBO for kids." "Toto, come on, here boy! We haven't got much time Toto!" "Serious comedy." "Is this funny or what?" (Series 1000 laughing sound effect) "HBO."

'''Variant:''' The first few uses of this logo had a brief look at the movie that's going to play. The logo started as usual, but the word "NOW" zoomed in. Some clips from the following movie then played, before the appearance of the HBO logo in this logo appeared, with the "NOW" animation playing again, and the full logo played as normal after that.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A 12-note cover of the 1982 fanfare in different instruments depending on the variant, composed by RK Music. The "Now" variant features an announcer saying over the music "It's on, now. [brief description of movie]. [2 actors from movie] in, [movie title]. It's on HBO, right now."

'''Variant:''' A shorter, much more common version of this logo was available, which starts off with the lights lighting up. The full version as described above was only shown on Saturday night movie premieres.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A powerful, dramatic orchestral fanfare that uses the 12-note HBO fanfare at the beginning, and near the end. During the "HBO City" sequence, there are whooshes that can be heard from passing cars and buses.

'''Variant:''' Other channels have their logo in place of their partner logo. Examples are HBO Latino (which replaces the text with "Pelicula") and HBO Family.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A brief ascending section of strings, followed by an orchestrated version of the 12-note HBO fanfare. HBO also made a prototype fanfare featuring just a latter part of the music out of just a bass and violin, which was exclusively used on HBO Family.

*Sometimes, a movie picture remains at the left as all the pictures drop down, while the split with the HBO logo and "Feature Presentation" appears in the right. This doesn't appear on the Asian version, as of this writing.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as before, but an announcer says "And now, an HBO feature presentation". There's also a different variant where an announcer says "And now, an HBO feature presentation: [movie title]." On HBO Asia, there's no announcer. So with the version on HBO Family USA.

*On HBO Max, a very short version exists.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Similar to that of the 14th opening, it's another powerful, epic orchestral fanfare that incorporates the 12-note 1982 fanfare, starting with only a piano, before progressing with some strings, and leading into a full, passionate orchestra. Plus, you can hear the city noises and river sounds. Composed by Man Made Music.