Ident

I have created an Ident for my channel, Ident is short for Identification, it is the channels own unique symbol and is often seen on the channel and within short clips inbetween shows (Generally right before and after a show), An ident is just essentially a short clip or music that can be conbined with a voiceover, sound effects or used on its own to identify the channel, kind of like media signature. It can be very creative, a good example of an ident would be the BBC1 Ident of the hippos swimming in unison.






(more examples are on the bbc website) http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/09_september/26/idents.shtml

The actual clip will have a higher quality and also includes audio, but this is essentially what my channel Ident is.



An extremely useful website which helped me to do this was videocopilot (http://www.videocopilot.net/) it shows tutorials and new ways to use Adobe After Effects. Freesound was also very useful website(http://www.freesound.org/)it has a wide range of easy to find and free to download short audio clips that are perfect for choosing the audio of my Ident.Television channels are required to show an Ident every hour, as it is a visual medium, the Ident may be both audio and visual.