Jan 23 2006 to Oct 6 2008 idents

Visuals: Depends on the ident, but they all involve a 4-letter word in the same style as the Five logo.

Later Variant: In January 2007, select idents were amended to have the Five logo itself in place of the random words.

Variants: Original set:

Fast: - There is some grayhound dogs chasing after the word "Fast" on a track.
Fear: - Someone opens a door which has a long corridor drowning forward. The word "Fear" is formed by the spirits.
Free: - In the blue sky, several white balloons are released, some of them forming the word "Free".
Hope: - At a Casino, someone throws two dice onto the board, passing by and landing at the word "Hope". Casino Chips are placed down.
Life: - We are rising the horizon, and as the lights switch on, the word "Life" is formed through them.
Live - On a rainy day, lightning strikes up in the sky, with the word "Live" being formed in the lightning.
Rush - A skydiver launches himself down from a plane, falling down near a field spelling the word "Rush".
Easy - The logo zooms out of a ladybird to see a park scene where people are relaxing, and forming the word easy.
Feel - In a car, there is a family taking a drive down the countryside. One of the woman opens out their window to see the sky with the word "Feel" formed in the clouds.
Play - Someone dives into a pool and rise out of it as someone pushes another person off an inflatable with the word "Play" printed onto it.
Risk - A person riding a horse bucks around the dirt, forming the word "Risk".

On Monday 6th October 2008, Five gets a new logo. The new on-air identity was developed by Dixon Baxi.

Nol Davis, Five’s Head of Creative Services, said “The new on-air identity reflects a constantly evolving, energetic and enthusiastic brand and tone of voice. There is real synergy on and off air which reflects a true collaboration between all our creative services and agencies.”

Carl Ratcliff, Five’s Head of Brand Strategy and Marketing, said “We feel this new work is closer to the truth of the brand. Playfulness and colour sit at the heart of this new identity.”

According to Media Week: "Five has also changed the way it runs promotions and idents around ad breaks and programmes. It has broken its usual one promotional spot between programmes into two parts called "brand bursts" and "content bursts".

The brand bursts will start rather than finish with the station's logo and then go straight into the next programme.

The content bursts are 10 seconds long and will be related to TV shows, but won't necessarily use content from them."

Idents:

Park Duel: The first ident, featuring invisible superheros fighting in the garden.

Containers Duel: The superheros are back, fighting in the by some containers.

Accordion: Shopping trolleys in a Sainsbury's car park are used as an accordion.

Gas Drums: Two cranes come in handy as drum sticks in this little ident, as gas storage tanks get used as drums.

Guitar: A busy road gets turned into a guitar, causing a crash or two.

Food Chain: Starting off with a jelly fish, but who's the top of the food chain?

Night Life: A journey where we see taxis, lights and deer.

Fly: A drawn cat tries to join the dots to finish his legs, until he swots a fly.

Sneeze: A girl has a little sneeze, and sneezes up a bouquet of flowers

Love Story: A little love story forms, cut out of the pages of a magazine.

Turf War: A story of hate, and things get a bit nasty, with explosions

Jelly World: The world appears to have turned to jelly...

Generic: A simple animated ident for before the news.

Fibre: A nice animated ident for before the news.

Color Love: Another nice animated ident for before the news.

Human Paint: Some swirly paint in another pre-news ident.

In Mid 2009, five idents took a bit of a change of direction, most of the old idents were withdrawn, with the exception of the simple animated idents (previously only used before the news). These were now joined by idents based around Five's programming, from the Gadget Show to Flash Forward. The new programme specific idents were introduced from July 2009, and by mid-August 2009 the majority of the old 'non-simple' idents were withdrawn.
Write a tweet saying Generic, Fibre, Color Love and Paint survived, as well as these other 3

🌟 Exciting news! Among the idents that survived the shift are Generic, Fibre, Color Love, and Human Paint! 🎨✨ Plus, we also have three new program-specific idents to look forward to! Stay tuned! #FiveIdents #TVUpdates

Write a conversation asking if any of the non-simple ones survived

User A: Hey, did any of the non-simple idents survive the recent changes on Five?

User B: I think most of them were withdrawn, but I heard that some still made the cut.

User A: Really? Which ones?

User B: From what I gathered, Generic, Fibre, Color Love, and Human Paint are still around.

User A: That’s cool! What about the more creative ones?

User B: Unfortunately, it seems like the majority of those are gone. But there are three new program-specific ones that they introduced!

User A: Oh nice, at least they’re keeping things fresh! Do you know what the new ones are about?

User B: Not exactly, but I think they relate to current shows on the channel. It should be interesting!

User A: For sure! I’ll keep an eye out for them. Thanks for the info!

Write a reply asking if ANY of the creative ones survived

User A: That's good to know! But just to clarify, did any of the creative non-simple idents survive, or are they all gone?

Write a reply

User B: As far as I know, all the creative non-simple idents were withdrawn. It’s a bummer because some of them were really unique! The focus seems to be on the simpler designs now, along with the new program-specific ones.

Write a conversation on Oct 5 2009 asking what 13 idents are currently used