HBO Feature Presentation: Difference between revisions

'''Visuals:''' Over a black-blue gradient background, the logo starts with the word "{{color|lightblue|SPECIAL}}" zooming towards the camera, leaving a few copies behind it. Then, as the word stops zooming, the copies of the text slide in various directions, towards the edge of the screen. Then, they merge back together into one text. A {{color|gold}} HBO logo then rapidly zooms in, then zooms back out inside the "C" in "SPECIAL".

'''Visuals:''' The sequence starts out with a space background with a light grid sheet rapidly moving across the bottom. Then, there are two triads of searchlights light up on the left and right sides, eventually crossing over each other. At the same time, blue lights appear and many {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} rays rapidly move towards the screen, followed by blue rays, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} circles, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} zigzags, colorful criss-cross lines, blue and {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} straight lines, and finally wavy {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} lines with curvy red lines between them. Then the camera pans 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 red. Finally, the lines shine repeatedly.

'''Visuals:''' On a space background with a gridded floor is 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. The screen then zooms 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 the camera slowly zooms in, a red curtain on the center rises to reveal a 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.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, {{color|darkviolet|purple}} streaks rain down the screen diagonally and disappear via a TV power-off effect as the screen fades to see a {{color|gray}} rounded rectangle with a neon {{color|hotpink|pink}} outline rotating and zooming out, with an ocean at the bottom of the screen. The rectangle gets slowly sliced into 3x3 pieces with yellow sparking lasers and, when it's done, explode into a blue circular flash, which brings forth a series of {{color|gold}} bars flying 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.

'''Visuals:''' As the sequence starts 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. 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, a movie theater with "HBO THEATRE" on the marquee can be seen. The camera flies over some buildings before going into the suburbs, with lots of trees, then several houses and a clock tower. Then the camera pans up into the sky, which briefly takes sunset hues before becoming blue and black with a starfield. The camera goes 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 {{color|orangered|scarlet}} and 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 "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}". The side of the "{{color|silver|'''O'''}}" disappears in a flash of light, revealing a stream of red, {{color|#FFD900|yellow}} and blue rays streaking counterclockwise around a {{color|silver|silver}} axis, and "{{color|violet|'''HBO FEATURE PRESENTATION'''}}", in a heavy, {{color|violet|lavender}} 3D "gaspipe" font and with each word stacked on top of the other (as well as a line under "{{color|violet|'''<u>PRESENTATION</u>'''}}"), appears against an array of {{color|darkviolet|purple}} lines. Some more rays sweep across the words and shine, then the background fades to black with more flashes from the surrounding rays.

'''Visuals:''' On a black-{{color|darkred|reddish}} gradient background, there is 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 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.

'''Visuals:''' In a widescreen effect (with the letterbox bars having a black and blue background) is 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.