WW / Relief Studios

Logo descriptions by Rauser and PaPaLuigi

Background: Relief Studios is an UK-based studio specializing on TV shows and post-production. It was founded in 1980 and purchased British Goldenbird in 1985. AGS made Relief a division of Winterwind in 2009.

1st Logo

(1980 - 1985)

Nickname: "The Cheap Relief"

Logo: The camera floats to a plain occupied by the letters, drawn in lines and arranged in chaotic angles. The sun flies from border and spins around the letters, ultimately getting to its place up the "I". The word "STUDIO" appears by one letter from left to right.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The sun flying, making the letters' shadows.

Cheesy Factor: The letters look incredibly ugly.

Music/Sounds: Silence.

Availability: Uncommon.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo

(1985 - 1996)

Nickname: "The Carving"

Logo: A purple light spot flashes in the center, emitting a few beams, which carve the words of the name below. The letters R S E in the same font fly (one after one) to the purple spot. Then the light slowly fades out.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: All the CGI. Better than the previous logo, but still low budget.

Music/Sounds: The special corporate jingle named "Season-12".

Availability: Uncommon. Was used in the first episodes of Canningham TV show.

Scare Factor: None.

3rd Logo

(1996 - 2003)

Nickname: "The Inverted Lighthouse"

Logo: We see a zooming lighthouse with rotating radar on the roof. The word RELIEF also zooms in quickly and sticks to the lighthouse. The lighthouse light flashes red and suddenly the picture turns inverted. Red light converts to green one. The word studio fades in.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Simple and cheap effects again.

Music/Sounds: A whizz sound when inverting colors.

Availability: Common; can be seen on House of 100 Horrors and Aeon.

Scare Factor: Low.

4th Logo

(2003 - 2009)

Logo: We see the familiar lighthouse, but a live-action one. Suddenly, the lighthouse makes a white glow which may, or may have not been intentional. The words RELIEF Studio zooms out from an extreme close up and sticks itself to the lighthouse. The byline An AGS/CNV Company fades in below and the lighthouse beams its light through the text.

Variant: On the logo's first few years, it is bylineless.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Simple and cheap effects once again.

Music/Sounds: A combination of the 3rd logo and 2nd logo's theme tunes. The 2nd logo's theme is re-orchestrated and extended to feature drumbeats.

Availability: Current, seen on the latest films made by Relief Studios.

Scare Factor: None, I must say.

Winterwind West

(1st July 2009 - 2010)

Nicknames: "The Lighthouse Revived"

Logo: We see a lighthouse, all enlighted by coloured flashes. Some fireflies move around the lighthouse, and our camera follows them, speeding up. The fireflies end in lighthouse light, explode and make the lighthouse glow (to imagine this remember the Screen Gems Logo). Over the lighthouse, the text zooms out:

WINTERWIND WEST

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a division of Winterwind Productions

It then becomes daytime, as the lighthouse's light turns off.

FX/SFX: The animations made in CGI. Very good.

Music/Sounds: Various whoosh and sheesh sounds, most of the time combined with an extended and slower version of the current Castlerock Pictures logo.

Availability: Very Rare. On the releases after 1st July 2009, but before 2010, when it became a part of Lighthouse. Goldenbird now will stay as an autonomous subsidiary of Winterwind, distant from the former Relief (ha-ha).

Scare Factor: Low to Medium.