Ident- My choice, audience considerations and research plans.

After watching invasion of the bodysnatchers, I've decided to do the Ident for the Sci-Fi channel. The brief sates to create a live action/composite for a brand new UFO series to be aired on the Sci Fi channel. alot of people may jump marketing a knew age Sci Fi series but I'd like to put a twist on it. I'd like to create my Ident for a new Sci Fi series that is almost a spoof of old Sci Fi films. This would be good to do for its something a knew age audience may like as its quite different. To make it more appealing to them I'l probably have to make the Ident have some comedy values . I think it would make it more compatible with the audience as it isn't something you could imagine people wanting to take it serious.

Here are the specifications of the Sci Fi Ident;

*Develop, Design and create a live action/composited ident for UFO.
*Must contain a live action sequence.
*Must contain some form of compositing, either Typographic or Visual effects.
*Must contain the Sci FI channel logo and copy - Weekdays at 8pm.

It also states that the people that choose this brief should consider the audience and maybe research into the channel itself. Which I have done, I've found that they do mostly promote knew series and films but still have done and are showing old Sci Fi, so with that in mind I think it will be good to come up with something slightly different a mix of both.
Th e brief also says consider budget, I'm going to go with quite a medium budget, so that I can create my special effects well in Black and White. I think people would enjoy seeing effects this for in the 50's and 60's (the period I'm trying to recreate) they were very limited in that respect. They had to use mood and music more than flash imagery.

The audience I'm going for is older people and the kind of hardcore Sci Fi fans. So the ident may have a kind of Niche feel to it.

Next I'm going to look at some at some old films and there adverts to see what kind of tactics they use to interest the audience . I'l have a look at the most memorable for if my ident can be compatible with them, the people that loved those films should love my piece.