IDENT: LOVE
IDENT: ENVY
IDENT: SUSPENSE
IDENT: DEATH
IDENT: JOY
IDENT: VICTORY
IDENT: INSANITY
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The Brief
Most of us love the way classical music makes us feel. We love the music itself, but many of us have a perception of classical music as an institution of closed doors and grand venues. We were therefore excited to
receive a brief from a passionate client that wanted to open these doors, reaching a fresh audience with a contemporary channel.
What does music sound like?
We started with how the channel sounds. We wanted the channel to have emotion, to have heart, so we gave it a pulse. This idea came from our client, Johannes, and we jumped on it – it is a really elegant way of tying
together emotion and music, in the form of rhythm. The music was scored with a heartbeat at its core, and compositions were written to the classic troupes of classical music and opera: Love, Joy, Hope, Victory, Envy,
Anger, Insanity, Suspense, Grief and Death. We wanted the audio brand to drive the creative, and this felt like the perfect solution.
What does music look like?
Classical music is always experienced live. Even a recording is live and unmixed, and alive performance – on stage, in a club, or in a concert hall, is beautifully lit.
The channel identity is sound reactive. We illuminated the channel with our signature branding element, and for our idents, with the help of a powerful projector, an able technician, and an Epic Red Dragon, projected
music into the environment: owning unexpected places and spaces with a living, sound reactive channel identity: a live performance pulsing with color. Classica produces an astonishingly highy quantity of its own
content. This enables the channel to brand pretty much whichever environment it chooses, including the venues where this content is recorded and filmed – we can brand an orchestra, or the entrance to an opera
house in a very clean, distinctive way.
Eyes & Ears Awards 2014 - Beste designbezogene Musik-Komposition SILBER, Bestes neues Corporate Designpaket BRONZE
Eyes & Ears Awards 2015 - Best On-Air-Ident Campaign SILBER, Best General Brand Design Package GOLD
Promax Global Excellence 2015 - Best Logo Design “Classica” GOLD
German Design Awards 2016 - Excellent Communication Design – Corporate Design GOLD
BDA Creative GmbH München
Creative Direction: Tim Finnamore
Art Direction: Anika Flade, Animation
VFX Artist: Jim Greenslade, Magnus Schlüter
