Original Film
Background
Original Film is a production company founded in 1997 by Neal H. Moritz, who also briefly founded Neal H. Moritz Productions.
1st Logo (October 17, 1997-April 29, 2004)
Logo: We start with a black background. Then, a yellow director chair fades in. We slowly pan up as other contents of a recording room fade in: a director sitting with his megaphone, a man with a film camera, lights and a boom microphone. Then we see a speaker with a striped bar under his head. All the action is made in unique decorative design and with a limited amount of colors, including yellow, green, dark blue and brown. The speaker's head and the bar remain in the frame, while everything else fades out and the name "ORIGINALFILM" in a custom font appears. The word "FILM" is placed directly below the frame.
Variant: On Cruel Intentions 2 and Return of Cabin by the Lake, the logo is shortened, beginning with the fade-in of the name.
Technique: Fading effects.
Music/Sounds: A simple uprising composition.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- On Slackers, the opening theme is heard.
- On Cruel Intentions 2, it is silent.
Availability: Rare. Debuted on I Know What You Did Last Summer (the film), and was also seen on the direct-to-video film Cruel Intentions 2, Slackers and The Skulls trilogy. It also appears on Return of Cabin by the Lake. Most movies, including The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious, have no logo.
2nd Logo (October 17, 1997-February 1, 2000)
Logo: On a black background, we see the print logo of Original Film from the era. It consists of the same frame with the speaker face ad the previous logo, but it is placed inside a white box, and the background in the frame is also white. The word "ORIGINAL" is posed vertically left to the frame and "FILM" appears below (a la the 1991-2005 LucasArts logo), all in black, with a small green square in the corner dividing them.
Technique: None.
Music/Sounds: The end theme of the movie.
Availability: Seen on the TV movie Cabin by the Lake and at the end of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
3rd Logo (August 8, 2003-)
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Original version
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S.W.A.T. (2017) variant
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Prison Break (2017) variant
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Sonic the Hedgehog variant
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 variant
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Logo: We see a silver "O" on a black background, flipping in from the darkness. Then it moves left, making room for "RIGINAL FILM", sandwiched between two lines up and down. While "RIGINAL" fade in (they flip in letter by letter for the 2009 version), "FILM" just slides to the right. The logo shines.
Variants:
- Television shows feature a shortened, sped up version. It starts when the "O" moves left.
- Starting in either 2010 or 2011, the logo has a more enhanced look.
- On Sonic the Hedgehog, the logo is blue and the background is red.
- On Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the colors are switched. The version leaked online has brighter colors.
- Nickelodeon airings of both films have a 16:9 open-matte version.
- On Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the colors are switched. The version leaked online has brighter colors.
- On some TV shows, the logo is still.
- On Tru Calling, the logo is stretched and it simply fades in as the letters of "RIGINAL FILM" move from the "O".
- On the 2017 version of S.W.A.T., the logo is above the Perfect Storm Entertainment logo.
- On Point Pleasant and The Boys, it is in warp speed.
- On the 2017 version of Prison Break, the print logo is used and shares the screen with the Dawn Olmstead Productions and Adelstein Productions logos.
Technique: CGI animation.
Music/Sounds: None or the movie's opening theme. At the beginning of Vantage Point and the 2012 remake of Total Recall, the tail end of the Columbia Pictures logo's music echoes over the very beginning of the spinning silver letter, then the logo remains completely silent. The television variant had a humming-like whoosh.
Availability: Common. First seen on S.W.A.T. (the movie). It appears on movies such as Vantage Point, Prom Night (2008), Sonic the Hedgehog, its sequel, and most of the Fast & Furious movies (the original version was on Fast & Furious, while all the subsequent films (excluding Hobbs and Shaw and F9: The Fast Saga) use the enhanced version). The television version can be seen on Prison Break, Tru Calling and the 2017 S.W.A.T. TV series. This doesn't appear on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Change-Up, R.I.P.D., The Art of Racing in the Rain, Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw or F9.
