Communicado
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Logo descriptions by gbper
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Editions by KPLN
Background: Communicadowas one of the first independent companies to specialize in popular factual TV programming in New Zealand founded by Neil Roberts. Communicado's productions ranged across business and tourism videos, advertising, and a run of magazine programmes and TV documentaries. Some of the company's work - like the Roberts-narrated ANZ Magic Minutes spots - blurred traditional lines between advertising and journalism.
1st logo
(1990-2000)
Nickname(s): "Gaze into the Dark", "Early Communicado"
Logo: A sky blue background with green plants which later turn into silhouette and the word Communicado zoom out from one side to another and stops near the top and a spotlight passes it when the sky turns purple.
FX/SFX: The words appearing.
Music/Sounds: Nightly music.
Availability: Seen on the Way We Were,Fred Hollows - One Man's Vision and many others.
Editor's Note: TBA.
FX/SFX: The chair, the sign and the flash.
Music/Sounds: Chair bouncing, guitar music and a flash followed by rock music.
Availability: Seen on the Big Art Trip, Havoc 1999 and many others.
Editor's Note: TBA.
Photos by
Video captures by
Editions by KPLN
Background: Communicadowas one of the first independent companies to specialize in popular factual TV programming in New Zealand founded by Neil Roberts. Communicado's productions ranged across business and tourism videos, advertising, and a run of magazine programmes and TV documentaries. Some of the company's work - like the Roberts-narrated ANZ Magic Minutes spots - blurred traditional lines between advertising and journalism.
1st logo
(1990-2000)
Nickname(s): "Gaze into the Dark", "Early Communicado"
Logo: A sky blue background with green plants which later turn into silhouette and the word Communicado zoom out from one side to another and stops near the top and a spotlight passes it when the sky turns purple.
FX/SFX: The words appearing.
Music/Sounds: Nightly music.
Availability: Seen on the Way We Were,Fred Hollows - One Man's Vision and many others.
Editor's Note: TBA.
2nd logo
(1996-2003)
Nickname(s): "The Bouncing Chair", "The Studio"
Logo: In a dark-ish CGI studio there is a wooden floor and a box with a yellow ball with the red star on it, a cone and of course, a bouncing chair which turns over to have an oval coloured blue with a man and a cone in it and the orange words Communicado on it facing near us. All of a sudden, a flash appears turning everything but the oval and words in black, which also shines.
FX/SFX: The chair, the sign and the flash.
Music/Sounds: Chair bouncing, guitar music and a flash followed by rock music.
Availability: Seen on the Big Art Trip, Havoc 1999 and many others.
Editor's Note: TBA.