(#1497) Red Live Entertainment Logo [Request]
Channel: ITB ITB
Date: 2019-01-10

This video is requested by JontyMaster. Please enjoy the video!

Nicknames: "The L-Pyramid II", "Rotating (CGI) L-Pyramid"

Logo: On a black background, several sets of triangles, laid at a 90-degree angle, come onto the screen from opposite directions. They then spin around a few times, as the camera pulls back, revealing more sets of triangles spinning, and the words "LIVE ENTERTAINMENT" at a 90-degree angle. The text then does a 90-degree turn to face us, while the triangles form the Live logo (segmented triangle with a smaller one cut out on the upper-right). All are light steel blue, until two searchlights crisscross the logo, making the triangle logo brighter, turning "LIVE" blue, and "ENTERTAINMENT" white. "LIVE" shines, and a white sparkle appears on the side of the "E".

Variants:
- For the first few months of this logo's existence, the text "HOME VIDEO" was used, had a different shine effect, and does not sparkle. This can be seen on Wagons East! and Pumpkinhead II.
- Earlier versions, including the "Home Video" version, have brighter triangles, almost looking like glass, a wiping shine effect making the text darker, and a different sparkle; the logo is filmed.
- In 1996, a registered trademark symbol "(R)" was added.
- Sometimes, "INTERNATIONAL" (in white) would appear below the "L" (which is also white). This is silent and uses the tail end of the normal logo (the "searchlights" part) though it also exists as a full logo; a variant of the normal logo has also been seen similarly shortened.
- On Live DVD releases, the normal Live Entertainment logo would play, then a purple spark flashes, "ENTERTAINMENT" disappears, the logo would zoom in as the spark moves through it, then the spark is in the middle, flashing, then we see the L spin, and the sides show "LIVE" on two sides and "DVD" on the others.
- Beginning in late 1995/early 1996, the tail end would be used as a closing variant.

FX/SFX: Excellent CGI. IVE/Live/Artisan alternated between good logos and bad ones. This one is a great effort. The next one (for Artisan)… well...

Additional FX Information: Red Hue Effects.

Music/Sounds: A semi-ominous synth theme that turns more triumphant at the end, with slow-to-fast ascending sounds. This was replaced by the summer of 1997 by a more uplifting orchestral fanfare, the tail end of which can be heard at the end of the tape.

Music/Sounds Variants:
- The early variants of this logo, as well as some videos with the "ENTERTAINMENT" version (including Baywatch the Movie: Forbidden Paradise, Killing Zoe, Forbidden Choices, Night Train to Venice, and Stargate), were silent. The first fanfare didn't debut until later in the summer of 1995.
- The DVD variant begins with descending whooshing sounds and rumbles, a shining sound, then a cling when the spark appears, another descending whoosh when we zoom through the Live logo, and finally when the Live DVD logo appears, a quiet orchestral rendition of the 1994 fanfare.

Availability: Uncommon. It was on all Live releases from 1994 to 1998, when the company became Artisan. However, like Live before it, Artisan pulled a Columbia TriStar, re-releasing Live/F.H.E. videos in their original packaging, but plastering all evidence of Live and F.H.E. logos with Artisan logos in their place! Also seen on films from 1994-1998 ending with Wishmaster (1997). DVDs from Live, even with Artisan's logo on the cover, should have this logo. It's preserved on the DVD release of South Beach Academy, released as a double feature with Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever. Can also be found on Hulu prints of Only You (a 1992 film that is not to be confused with a 1994 TriStar Pictures film of the same name) and Night Train to Venice, and VUDU prints of Extreme Prejudice. Re-releases of The Young Americans, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl, Bad Lieutenant, and others issued as part of later Super-7 promotional markdown releases also have this, as do the company's first releases in its regular lineup of letterboxed cassettes. Most DVD releases had both the DVD variant before the menu and the regular 1997 music variant when the feature is played (the DVD of Terminator 2: Judgment Day only has the closing variant for the latter, though). It is Army of One, Temptation, and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings. The identification as "Live Entertainment" first appeared on Killing Zoe and ...And God Spoke. The first fanfare debuted on a demo tape of Top Dog.

Editor's Note: This is a nice logo, and a favorite of many.