5Star

Credits

Descriptions by
Chow Woon Gan

Background

As part of the re-vamping of Channel 5's portfolio of channels, Fiver (originally launched as Five Life) became 5Star on 7 March 2011.

1st ID (March 7, 2011-March 7, 2013)

Visuals: On a setting, a circle with a transparent star enclosed on it is seen hiding in some place before it moves around while leaving colorful trails behind and separate each other to show its colors: pink, purple, yellow, green and cyan before merging back during this. Then, the star turns into the ident's respective color and flashes into an illusion, which consists of something made up of shapes in its respective color. It then flashes back to its color as the circle flies away from it. The circle-star (with the star being transparent again) moves around again until it reaches a comfortable distance. When it reaches, the circle moves to reveal the Channel 5 logo beside it as the color of the star switches to pink, purple, yellow, green, cyan and back to its transparent color.

Trivia: The presentation is basically the same as Fiver's, but edited to include the new logo.

Variants:

• Flyover: Below a flyover with graffiti sprayed below, the circle-star flies behind the flyover before moving closer and flying down. It then goes up, separating its color and merging back before flying away. The circle then arrives closer to the screen as the star turns yellow, showing the flyover being made of yellow, orange and black and white zigzag colored shapes. After the illusion flashes back to its yellow color, the circle moves back and goes to the left, before forming the logo. A person riding a bicycle can be also seen in the distance.
• Mall: The camera slowly pans down from the first floor of the shopping mall to a ground floor of the shopping mall. During this, the circle-star is seen hiding behind a banner before flying away from it and towards to the left while separating each other and merging back. It then flies in a further distance and goes up before settling closer to the screen as the star turns pink and flashes to show a tree being made up of several pink, blue and black and white zigzag colored crosses, which one of them flashes and spins. The illusion flashes back to its color before the circle flies away. As the camera reaches the ground floor, the camera flies to the left before zooming in to the left-center of the screen, where it forms the logo.
• Park: A helicopter view of a park with buildings beside it is shown with the camera slowly zooms in, as the circle-star moves across the road and flies up. It then moves to the left, separate its colors and merge back. It then moves behind a building, before moving away and getting closer to the screen as the star turns cyan, flashing to show the trees are made out of blue and green shapes as the camera slowly pans above the trees with a cityscape in a further distance. The illusion later flashes back to cyan as the circle flies away, before it flies above the trees and forms the logo.
• Railway: On a railway station with people walking, the circle flies behind the people, before separating its colors and merging back, as the camera follows the circle. It then flies to the left before moving back and flies up. The circle, with the star already colored in blue, then flies closer on the screen, showing that the signboard has been replaced by blue, purple and black and white zigzag colored rectangles with its components spinning and glowing. The illusion then flashes back to its blue color as the camera moves away. The circle then reappears on the left, before going back, flying to the right and settling on the roof of the station as the camera follows. The logo formation is then shown.
• Funfair: A funfair setting is shown with the circle above it. The circle then flies up and moves to the right before going closer and flying up again. It then moves closer to the camera as the star turns purple before showing an illusion where a ride is made out of purple, cyan, pink and white shapes. The illusion then disappears before the circle flying away as the camera pans out towards a carousel and shows another view of the funfair. During this, the circle flies to the left in the distance, comes closer and repeats these actions before proceeding to the logo formation.
• Christmas 2011 and 2012: Over a green screen setting with a stack of cardboard boxes, a crew member walks towards the boxes while holding a cardboard box is seen as the circle flies towards the setting. He puts the box above a stack of boxes before walking away as the circle flies behind them, goes right, comes closer, separates its colors and merges back before flying away. The circle later comes closer to the camera as the star turns yellow, showing a colorful Christmas tree with two triangles on three of the rows surrounding them. The illusion then flashes to its color before zooming out beside the boxes, which later zooms in and proceeds to the logo formation.

Technique: Live-action and CGI.

Audio: An electro tune, which varies depends on the ident. A continuity announcer can also be heard throughout the ident.

2nd ID (March 8, 2013-February 10, 2016)

Visuals:

• Magnets: First, a cyan square forms itself on a white background before floating upwards to become 3D. It suddenly floats alongside with other white circles, squares and triangles, while a different shot of it is shown. It then cuts to a close-up of the square, as various purple shapes being sucked onto it like a magnet. The footage then cuts to various shapes from the white surface getting sucked with the parts of the surface bulging up and down as the camera pans to the right, before it cuts to the cyan square, with more purple and cyan shapes being sucked onto it. Two shots of the surface bulging up to form the logo from before, with the text being cyan, as a cyan square slowly flying away from it, with the last shot being an overhead view.
• Asteroids: Two white rectangles open up on a white background to reveal a white vortex as the camera zooms into it. It then reveals a top-view of several white triangles as the camera rotates into view and moves to show some cyan and white asteroid-like shapes floating. The camera then zooms out, revealing that the asteroids are forming the logo from the magnets ID, with several lime green squares and rectangles moving up and down behind them.
• Stripes: A purple square transitions in with a blinds effect on a white background before zooming out and forms a ribbon, which flies in as the camera follows. It then cuts to another shot of the ribbon flying before expanding to a white surface and disappears, causing the scene to change to the ribbon goes down to the floor and continues expanding as more lines join in. Several lines draw through the "V" surface are then shown, before cutting to the lines goes through the surface with the logo embossed onto it. Finally, the camera shows a top-view of the surface as the lines fly away, turning the text pink.
• Christmas 2013 and 2015: A car drives through a white environment setting with houses, trees, clouds and flying confetti, filling everything cyan, pink and purple. As the car drives through a ramp, a train with presents carried over passes below the ramp as the camera follows it, before it cuts to a train passes through the tunnel and filling the road purple and everything colorful, just like the car. The scene then changes to the train crossing a ramp surrounding the Christmas tree. The final shot shows another view of the train crossing the ramp before the camera flies into an overhead view, showing the logo, with the text in purple.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A continuity announcer can also be heard throughout all the idents.

• Magnets: An electro tune.
• Asteroids: A hip-hop electro tune.
• Stripes: A different hip-hop electro tune.
• Christmas 2013 and 2015:
  • 2013: The audio from the channel's Christmas 2011 and 2012 ident.
  • 2015: The audio from 5USA's Christmas 2011-2015 ident, which consists of Christmas music, before being slowed down with electrical buzzes due to a breakdown, which later turns normal before an electrical buzzing sound cuts it off again.

3rd ID (February 11, 2016-September 1, 2019)

Visuals: The basic concept shows a building filled with multicolored lights with lots of patterns inside it. "A" then transitions in, as "5ST R" slides in between it, forming the logo.

Variants:

• Hotel: On a dark night sky at the right, there is a hotel (which is the Senate House in London) filled with multicolored lights that has lots of black patterns inside it. The logo then forms.
• Tunnel: On a light hallway in the middle, there is a dark tunnel (which is the Blackwall Underpass in London) filled with multicolored lights that has lots of patterns inside it. Inside the tunnel, there are some people running, walking and riding a bicycle. The logo forms at the end.
• Drummer: A drummer is shown playing drums behind the London Design Museum, which is filled with multicolored lights that has lots of black patterns inside it, as various people watching him. The logo then forms.
• Abstract Shapes: On a black background, two triangle shapes with abstract patterns move up. They then transform to a triangle-like shape before various shots out of abstract shapes with "A" in the center of the screen, outside and inside of it. The "A" forms while zooming out, as the rest of the logo forms as usual. The color of the ident may comes with red, blue and green.

Technique: Live-action for the first three idents and 2D computer animation for the Abstract Shapes ident. These idents are created by Found Studio, and the music on the idents are composed by Altitude Music, while the logo itself is designed by New York agency Gretel.

Audio: A funky beat. Like the previous idents, a continuity announcer can also be heard throughout the ident.

4th ID (September 2, 2019-)

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Visuals: On a navy blue background, the logo from before, with "STAR" being in a different font, forming in various effects. At the end of each ident, an underline wipes in below "STAR".

Variants:

• Fanout: Red drawing circles zoom in via a fanout effect as it reveals the Channel 5 logo and "STAR". The color of the circles then changes to green as it overlays the logo and does the same thing as before. Before they disappear, the logo turns red as an underline is formed.
• Flash Past: Multicolored horizontal lines pass by the screen as the logo briefly appears from the lines. The red Channel 5 logo later emerges from the lines, as a blue line passes by to reveal the entire logo in blue. As several lines pass through the logo, the logo's color changes to green, as multiple green lines pass by, forming the underline.
• Horizontals: Various colorful horizontal lines roll in like a cylinder, as the green Channel 5 logo is briefly revealed by the lines before wiping out, followed by the red logo, which followed suit. After a while, the green logo appears from the lines, before the lines turn it yellow and back to green. Before the lines disappear, multiple red horizontal lines roll in behind the logo, turning it red as an underline is formed.
• Radar Sweep: Various colorful circles rotate like a radar sweep effect as the yellow Channel 5 logo is briefly revealed from the circle before being overlaid by the other circles, alongside with "STAR". The Channel 5 logo, now in green, reappears alongside with "STAR" before the "5" being overlaid and turns yellow, while "STAR" turns red as the Channel 5 logo turns red before being fully dissolved. The Channel 5 logo briefly reappears in yellow before its color goes inverted, as "STAR" in its inverted colors reappears beside it. The logo dissolves again before it reappears in blue. It turns yellow at the end and an underline forms below "STAR".
• Radial: Various radial lines in red, white, blue, yellow and green appear spinning as the green Channel 5 logo is briefly revealed by a blue line before being covered by a green line. The Channel 5 logo later reappears with "STAR" before being covered again. As the lines continue to spin, the Channel 5 logo, now in blue briefly reappears with "STAR" before being covered. The green Channel 5 logo reappears once again by the lines, before it shows the same logo in blue, and finally the entire logo in yellow as the lines disappear and the underline forms as usual.
• Radial Burst: Red radial lines transition in with a radial burst effect, before going to various colors in order: green, blue and yellow. As it repeats, the yellow logo is revealed by the blue lines, before the red lines turning it blue. The logo briefly turns red before the green lines turn it yellow. As it finally reaches yellow, the lines disappear, as the underline forms below "STAR".
• Radial In: Multiple colorful radial lines zooming out like a radial in effect as the logo in green is briefly revealed, before being reappeared again in navy blue. Finally, the lines reveal the logo in green, as multiple lines zoom out even more, before it segues to the logo formation sequence.
• Radial Out: Multiple colorful radial lines zooming in like a radial out effect. Part of the logo in green is briefly revealed before another part of the logo in red does. The blue Channel 5 logo is briefly seen by the lines as the lines above reveal another part of the logo in blue. The whole green logo appears as a light runs through by the radial lines, before the radial lines turning it red before disappearing, causing an underline to form below "STAR".
• Radial Sweep: Red, yellow, green and cyan shapes sweep in like a radial sweep effect as the blue Channel 5 logo is briefly seen as "STAR" slowly fades in beside it, before the logo fades out and reappears in yellow. As a yellow shape sweeps in, the logo disappears before the Channel 5 logo in black appears with "STAR", before "STAR" changes to black as the entire logo slowly turns to green. The red shape and the green shape sweep in again, turning the logo red, as an underline forms as usual.
• Verticals: Red, yellow, green and blue vertical lines appear while sliding to the right and rolls like a vertical cylinder. During this, the yellow Channel 5 logo wipes in before being covered by a yellow line. The black logo is also briefly seen as a blue line passes through. The logo in red is revealed before being wiped by a yellow line. The black logo is briefly seen again, before the logo in yellow wipes in as it changes its color to orange, pink, red, and finally, green. As a green line disappears, the logo formation is shown.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: All these idents are accompanied with a swoosh at the beginning and the end, when an underline is formed. Moreover, a continuity announcer can also be heard throughout all the idents.

• Fanout: A long-held synth tune.
• Flash Past: A mysterious beat.
• Horizontals: A long-held synth tune with a swoosh at the beginning and a drum hit at the end.
• Radar Sweep: A repetitive two-note synth tune.
• Radial: A dramatic rising synth tune.
• Radial Burst: A rising synth tune.
• Radial In: A loud electronic synth tune with various swooshes in the background.
• Radial Out: Similar to Radial Out, but different.
• Radial Sweep: A long-held synth tune with swooshes in the background.
• Verticals: A long-held synth note with two drumbeats. Various swooshes are also heard from the vertical lines.

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