South Pacific Pictures is a New Zealand television production company founded in 1988 by John Barnett. Their flagship series is Shortland Street. Until 1998, their parent company was TVNZ. Starting 2003, they are owned by All3Media.
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1st Logo (February 18, 1990-December 18, 1998) | 2nd Logo (January 11, 1999-2011) | 3rd Logo (2011-) |
Visuals: On a black background, there is a camera moving up from the bottom of the screen, emitting a ray of light. Along with it are two theater masks that revolve around the spotlight. They make their way to the center and the light shines on them, causing the masks to become illustrations of one another in a black box with two arcs on opposing corners of the box and the screen to become white. The text is seen beneath it in a black font reading:
Variants:
Technique: Analog computer animation.
Audio: The ending theme of the program.
Availability:
Visuals: A stylized blue star zooms on a marine background. The name "SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES" fades in on the right side of the star. Below it, there is the slogan reading "turning dreams into drama".
Variants:
After that is the copyright notice containing the company name.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The opening/closing theme or none.
Availability: Seen on several TV series, such as Being Eve, but also on movies. Most notably seen on Sione's Wedding.
Visuals: On a black background with spotlights on it, three green stars pass by, rotating and sending shines. One of them circles back to the screen, creating the name "SOUTH PACIFIC" and the word "PICTURES" in small lettering setting above it. Then the star and the whole logo shines.
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The closing theme.
Availability: Seen on new episodes of Shortland Street and on their new shows they produced from this period onwards such as The Brokenwood Mysteries, 800 Words, Step Dave, The Sounds and Tatau.
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