Draft:M-ZET Films

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Background

M-ZET Films, also known as M-ZET TV Productions was the production company founded in 1990 by actor Vic Sotto, which is also the member of the music groups VST & Company and the trio Tito, Vic and Joey and one of the founding hosts of the very popular noontime variety show Eat Bulaga!. The company didn't have a logo until 1990.

1st Logo (1990)

Nicknames: "Motorola-Like M", "The Alien M", "Early M-ZET"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: A creepy UFO-like sound.

Availability: Very rare, only seen on Crocodile Jones: The Son of Indiana Dundee.



2nd Logo (1990-1996)


Nicknames: "The Horse in Front of the Sun", "Motorola-Like M II", "The Alien M II", "M-ZET I"

Logo: A pink-ish light appears on the top-left corner. The sun rises. A horse runs in from the left and stops, looks at it's legs and then stands up, and both things zoom out. A vertical rectangle with blue lines and a border appears from above, and places behind the sun. Parts of the M then zoom out and join. "ZET" flashes in below the M, along with "FILMS", which is seen below the horse and sun.

Variants:

  • Starting in 1992, the logo begins with the sun and the horse already in place.
  • On Okay ka, Fairy Ko! (The Movie) and Sam and Miguel: Your Basura No Problema, a short version was used.
  • There is a slightly short version and more blue tinted, this was seen on Okay ka Fairy Ko! Part 2.

FX/SFX: All 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A synth fanfare, along with other sounds, including the ascending/descending sounds and the horse.

Music/Sounds Variants:

  • The 1992 variant had an icy synthesizer tone, followed by some synth zaps and thunder-like crashes as the logo's elements come together.
  • The short version uses the whoosh and chime bells was heard.
  • On Okay Ka Fairy Ko! Part 2, an eerie music features the whoosh sound and weird noise at the end (much like the monster roar or Pokemon game/cry) was heard.

Availability: Rare, can be found movies like Samson & Goliath and Okay ka Fairy Ko! Part 2, the short version appears on Okay ka, Fairy Ko! and Sam And Miguel: Your Basura No Problema. Don't expect to see the logo in Okay ka, Fairy Ko! (the TV series), which has the in-credit notice instead, and it is see only on the original ABS-CBN episodes of that show. The 1992 variant looks extremely rare, and was seen on its 1992-1996 episodes

Legacy: The animation is extremely choppy and the sound effects are ill-fitting - albeit humorous. Given that this sometimes followed the notoriously eerie Regal Home Video logo, this may have been a welcome reprieve. In the 1992 version, the music is more well-suited this time around, it's far creepier than the first logo.


3rd Logo (1996-1999)


Nickname: "M-ZET II", "Motorola-Like M III", "The Alien M III", "Cheesy M-Zet"

Logo: On a black background, we see an "M" forming with blue bars resembling a blue square which the "M" is on. Then more blue bars appear and "ZET" appears under the blue box "M", then "FILMS" appears under "ZET". Several blue lines shoot toward the screen.

FX/SFX: The animation in the logo.

Music/Sounds: The trumpet portion with synth tinkles from the OctoArts Films and Cinemax Studios logos.

Music/Sounds Variants:

  • On Enteng and the Shaolin Kid and Ang Tange Kong Pag-ibig, a creepy, yet dreamy synth music that also plays on the Mother Studio Films and Moviearts Films logos.
  • On Biyudo Si Daddy, Biyuda Si Mommy, A An choir sound with an ascending-descending synth sound that also plays on MegaVision Films and Libran Films Inc.
  • On Basta't ikaw... Nanginginig pa, a dramatic fanfare with rising sound was heard.

Availability: Uncommon, can be found on movies like Lab En Kisses, Ang Tange Kong Pag-ibig, D'Sisters: Nuns of the above, and Biyudo Si Daddy, Biyuda Si Mommy. The logo did not appear on the 1996-1997 GMA Network episodes of Okay ka, Fairy Ko! and 1 for 3, which is both using the in-credit variants.

Legacy: Much tamer than the 2nd logo, thanks to the soothing synth stinger. The "extending bar" animations would have been considered cheap by the 1970s. But for a logo conceived in the mid-90s? It's a complete anachronism that almost transcends cheesiness and loops back around into artistic merit.


4th Logo (2001-2016)

Nickname: "Connecting Blue Bars"

Logo: On a black background, we see many blue bars stacking (a la Fries Entertainment) to form a TV tube shape with "MZ" on it and "TV" on the bottom of the "Z". Then, we zoom out, and the text "M-ZET TV PRODUCTION, INC." appears underneath.

FX/SFX: Modern computer graphics.

Music/Sounds: A dark synth tune from the OctoArts Films logo.

Music/Sounds Variants: TBA

Availability: Common, can be found on some Filipino movies like Enteng Kabisote 3, Lastikman, and more upcoming films. Don't expect to see this logo on Daddy Di Do Du, which is using the in-credit variant and appears after the in-credit notice for GMA Network on original airings, but it was removed on the BuKo Channel airings.


5th Logo (2016-)

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: The Opening Theme of the movie.

Music/Sounds Variants: TBA

Availability: Brand New, Debuted on Enteng Kabisote 10 and the Abangers.

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