Sea Coast Entertainment

Background: Sea Coast Entertainment was founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick, and Alan Horn, with Torch Pictures as their strategic partner originally. However, this company did not use a logo nor produce any films until 1989, when When You Saw Mary... was released. It is currently a subsidiary of Hesker Boys Entertainment.

1st Logo

(July 14, 1989-July 29, 1994)

Nicknames: "The Light"

Logo: Over a sea at sunset with some land, a small house with an light in the roof shining. A white sun rises up from the bottom of the range, and as the light moves from left to right, it causes the plain white words "SEA COAST ENTERTAINMENT" to appear at the bottom of the screen. The light disappears when the logo is finished.

FX/SFX: The sun rising up, the "SEA COAST ENTERTAINMENT" text appearing, and the light shining; nice 2D animation.

Cheesy Factor: The house shining is pretty choppy, but other than that, it's pretty good.

Music/Sounds: A soft piano sounder followed by a five-note fanfare with horns and bells. This tune was composed by Marc Shaiman.

Music/Sounds Variants: On Flying Lover, there is a weird music variation with the volume growing very loud then softer.

Availability: It usually can be seen on Sea Coast releases from 1989-1994.

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo

(September 23, 1994- )

Nicknames: "CGI Light"

Logo: Same as the previous logo, but in CGI. We see a yellow light on a black background rotating, then the background fades to a blue/orange gradient sky with water to reveal a house with that light in the roof. The yellow light turns from left to right while the plain light orange sun rises up and sweeps around to reveal the words "SEA COAST ENTERTAINMENT", in the same font as the previous logo and colored in plain yellow, below the house. The company name now zooms out from the bottom of the screen. The light disappears when the house and the company name stays on the logo.

Bylines: Below it, one of these five bylines fade in below the logo:

September 23, 1994-May 19, 1995: "A OVAL COMPANY" (in a Helvetica font)

August 25, 1995-October 11, 1996: "A Oval Company" (All the text is styled after the Day Hesker logo)

December 20, 1996-February 14, 1997: (Bylineless)

January 30, 1998-December 14, 2000: "A Day Hesker Company"

September 28, 2001-April 16, 2003: "An TMC Day Hesker Company"

April 30, 2004- : "A DayHesker Company" ("DayHesker" appears as the corporate logo; the rest of the text appears in the Trebuchet MS font).

Variants:

On Channel, the logo isn't animated.

On Vicky Rose Eyes, at the beginning, the background is violet.

FX/SFX: The lighthouse and the company name zoom-out.

Cheesy Factor: The byline "A OVAL COMPANY" chryoned in on the 1995 variation is very rough, but this is lots of cool stuff that comes with accuracy.

Music/Sounds: A more re-orchestrated and dramatic-sounding version is used.

Music/Sounds Variant: On some currents of 1989-1994 movies, this plasters the 1989 logo but keeps its original music.

Availability: Currently in use.

Scare Factor: None.