Frantic Films

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


Frantic Films Corporation is a Canadian branded content and live-action production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Frantic Films is known for producing live-action reality shows, documentaries and for its work in feature film visual effects. Although founded in 1997, no logo was used until 2002.


1st Logo (January 6, 2002-August 29, 2005)

Visuals: On a black background, some blue circles move around a line to form the logo, with the "frantic films" text stacked with a stretch-in effect on a centered place.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: The ending theme.

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Media Title Date of Release Additional Notes
Quest for the Bay
OSCA
January 6-20, 2002
 
Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit
OSCA
August 29, 2005
 


2nd Logo (February 2, 2003-2009)

Visuals: On a red-yellow background, there is a tunnel of spinning lines which coalesces into a particle energy blast. The words "frantic" and "films" scramble and flash through as they connect together, before eventually setting into a white shining circle with three blue ovals placed behind the text "frantic films" in the similar style as before. When the logo is ready, some sparkles appear and the background becomes yellow-orange with some curved lines moving through the logo.

Variant: The logo could have the background in orange or blue.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The ending theme of the show.

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Media Title Date of Release Additional Notes
Klondike: The Quest for Gold (The Quest for Gold)
OSCA
February 2-23, 2003
 
Bomber Boys
OSCA
2004
 
Last Chance for Romance
OSCA
2005
 
Kitchen Crimes
OSCA
2005-2006
 
Til Debt Do U$ Part
OSCA
2005-2009
Episode 1-64
Used on seasons 1-6
Devil's Brigade
OSCA
2006
 
Guinea Pig
OSCA
2007
 


3rd Logo (2007–2019)

Visuals: There is the Frantic Films logo in white-gray metal tiles centered on a black background. Then, the camera shakes as it collapses, causing tiles to explode and shoot like comets while blue cracks looking like space turn lightened up to the logo. The camera shakes even more, as lights trace the Frantic Films logo to form it in a more seeming less way, while the blue sparkles turn into a flourish blue galaxy.

Variants:

  • Starting in 2009, the logo plays in reverse and has the first few seconds removed.
  • Episode 12 of Men with Brooms features a still version of the logo.
  • On Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End, the logo is in monochrome.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The ending theme of the show, or silence.

Audio Variant: On an episode of Pitchin’ In, some people are heard laughing and cheering together.

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Media Title Date of Release Additional Notes
History's Toughest Soldiers
OSCA
2007
Original version
Til Debt Do U$ Part
OSCA
2009-2011
Used from season 7 onwards.
Pitchin' In (The Lynn Crawford Show)
OSCA
December 26, 2009-March 19, 2013
 
The Opener
OSCA
2010-2011
 
Prince$$
OSCA
September 7, 2010-May 8, 2012
 
Meet the Family
OSCA
September 29, 2013-February 21, 2015
 


4th Logo (2019-)

Visuals: On a blue background, there is a messy version of the logo just coming down as if it was traveling near the center of the moon, while there is light striking everywhere to form the logo from before. Below, there is a copyright stamp.

Audio: Same as the previous logo.

Technique: CGI.

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