Nine Network: Difference between revisions

* '''Variant #1:''' The dots appear to the left in orange, follow by the "9" in the same colour to the right. The camera moves towards the dots until the middle dot is all that's left. The dot then grows arms, legs, and a face, with it being confused at first. After looking at his new features, the character gets embarrassed and turns red. The character turns back to orange and then does a little dance (The "shuffle" dance from the previous idents) before giving a weary smile. The character then reverts back to the dot and the logo zooms out.

'''Visuals:''' On an abstract CGI background of purples, reds and oranges, a swoosh appears and "hits" the middle of the screen, causing circles to disperse from the centre of the screen. As this occurs, the Channel 9 logo zooms out from the foreground and settles in the centre of screen, this time, in a light gold colour.

*In 1996, the logo was slightly updated, the animation is unchanged, though the colours have been somewhat muted.

'''Visuals:'''  The screen zooms into a line of the words "channel nine" repeating with two bars above and below as well as red- and blue-coloured flames on the left and right sides, respectively. as the screen zooms into a small sphere and a larger sphere appearing between the bars and over the letter "e" in "channel". The spheres rotate and the smaller one is revealed to be surrounded by a Saturn-esque ring, as the camera continues to zoom in through more concentric spheres before a cubic version of 9's famous dots appears, rotating throughout. The logo zooms through the dots to reveal the 9 logo on a red and blue background with stylised sparks emerging either side of it and the words "channel nine" both above and below it.

*An alternative version exists, which instead, uses both the orange and aqua blue colours for the flames and background.

'''Trivia:''' This package and the next were designed by Graham Cousens, at the time an in-house designer at Nine<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6RIl_h_bw</ref>.  

*The ident would be a different colour throughout the day of the week. Those colours are the following: {{color|blue|Dark Blue}} (Monday), {{color|darkorchid|Purple}} (Tuesday), {{color|Orange}} (Wednesday), {{color|deepskyblue|Light Blue}} (Thursday), {{color|limegreen|Green}} (Friday), {{color|Yellow}} (Saturday), and {{color|Red}} (Sunday).

'''Visuals:''' There is a green dot zoom out and explode into many dots. This leads to a cascade of other dot "explosions". The explosions rotate, changing colour with each turn from greens and yellows to pinks and purples to blues and whites. Finally, there are nine of the dots rotate in to fill about half the frame. The word "Choose" (in all-caps) appears in one of the dots, next to which the Nine logo appears.

'''Audio:''' An upbeat tune with male singers vocalising throughout then singing what sounds like "smile" (similar to The Supernaturals' song from the previous ident) at the end.

'''Visuals:''' The logo starts with various shots of a "swoosh" passing the frame in various colours, sometimes weaving around spheres in the same colour as the swoosh and the background. The colours in this ID, are as followed: {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, {{color|red}}, {{color|limegreen|green}}, {{color|darkorchid|purple}}, {{color|yellow}}, {{color|limegreen|green}}. Eventually, the camera cuts to a shot of the swoosh moving up the left side of the frame as the Nine logo appears on the right with "Welcome Home" (all lowercased) below it. As this happens, the colour changes three more times from {{color|darkorchid|purple}}, to {{color|yellow}}, and finally, to {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}.

'''Availability:''' While elements of this branding are still in use, albeit in a slightly updated form, the ident itself is no longer used.