Saturn Visions™ makes the kind of high-end branding dept (normally seen in a major production corporation or broadcaster) available to everyone, on a simple time-based costing structure. Our team of brand strategists and designers have worked with everyone from UK production companies like Terry Jones' Messiah Pictures, to global brands like Eon's James Bond.

Visions™ services support all other Saturn™ services, and can also be commissioned seperately in two main areas: Design for companies, and design for productions...

Corporate Branding & Animated Idents

Like meeting someone new, the first (and lasting) impression of a company is its presentation. An identity should reflect your size, your success, and your specialism. It should portray your age, stature and your measure of forward-thinking. The psychology of logos can be your greatest asset, or your largest nemesis, and in television, film & music, the public profile of these corporate images serve to multiply this further. Most production companies will either cite that they're "too busy making productions to worry about it", or that they cannot afford to spend the kind of budget they would want in developing their own image. Thanks to Saturn Visions™, there is no longer any excuse. The specialist designers at Saturn Visions™ have the ability to build world-class commercial corporate brands and animated TV/film idents, to a higher quality and with greater efficiency than any other competitor in the marketplace. Plain and simple.

Corporate Web Presence

Only a couple of years ago, you were only as good as your offices. Now its your website. This is now so true that if you can not afford an online presence that really reflects who you are...then sell your offices! Anyone who wants to know anything about your company – from potential investors to potential broadcasters, will seek out your online presence as it's the easiest, most cost efficient way to analyse who you are, and what you do. For the television industry in particular, a quick flick through the PACT book will quickly reveal the shocking number of reputable companies who either have no site at all, or have delegated their online responsibilities to an amateur web design company. You will find that roughly 5% of companies have a professional online presence. Despite being visual artists, independent television and film production companies are among the greatest online offenders. In the view of many, it is no accident that the industry also attracts one of the lowest levels of investment in international commerce, and supports one of the highest bankruptcy rates.

Shortly, changes to the broadcasting bill will mean that producers will have to be more commercially astute than ever, if they are to beat the competition to the limited funding available to support the imminent explosion of producer-funded programmes. Saturn Visions™ has made it a personal mission to bring the top companies up to speed, with the same level of high-end online professionalism seen in almost every other industry. Saturn Visions™ does not generally build websites (this is a low-cost final process) - what we do though is specify, design and manage the process of making sure you look the size of company you will be in 5 years time (all with Saturn's help of course!). For a serious independent commercial valuation of your current 'online real-estate', and an understanding of where you should be, contact Saturn Visions™ now to arrange a free chat.

Every major production corporation knows that a programme proposal or treatment needs to enthuse and inspire the broadcaster with the same vision of prime-time excellence they hold. Then there's the competition; hundreds of other proposals by smaller production houses – with lesser financial clout. The majors make SURE their proposals stand shoulders high above the rest. As their public accounts reveal, expenditure on in-house "electronic marketing" is substantial. Now – for the first time – the balance is corrected. Saturn Visionsฎ delivers cost effective ultra high-end production-company solutions to British and US companies.

Electronic Programme Proposals (EPPs) & Treatments

Broadcasters have regularly voiced their desire to replace the mounds of paper proposals, with email programme proposals. The logic of this is obvious but, understandably, producers are concerned about the loss of creativity this text-only format affords them. However, those who ignore the preferences of their buyers, do so at their peril. Those at the cutting edge use the "click this link" strategy, which instantly transports the reader to a world of unlimited colour, animation and video that puts – even the very best proposals and treatments – to shame. Saturn Visions™ is revolutionising the use of this technology for the production industry and, for those who wish to give their next production the very best chance of instantly conveying the same vision to anyone anywhere in the world in an instant, please contact us urgently for a demonstration of what this technology can do for you.

High-end Production Branding & Key/Poster Art

Many production companies fail to enthuse others to the commercial potential of their productions by leaving the development of their production imagery to the post-commission stage. Along with the ability to take control of your essential rights, comes the need to maximise the commercial buy-in to your new project, at an early stage. Licensing partners and agents, distributors, financiers and investors, and many others will all want to be convinced that their investment in your project will be a profitable experience. Now, you have access to the highest bracket of programme/film brand artists, on a simple realistic cost structure.

Production WebSite Strategy

You wouldn't ask a Mechanic to design your car, and yet 98% of production companies we asked used web technicians to build AND design their production sites! A high-profile, high-end commercial production site can be a serious asset to the producer. Top sites can affect audience ratings, built instant reputations, attract second-series backers and – of course – generate serious secondary-rights revenue-streams. In the last year, search engines worldwide have recorded record numbers of programme-related searches. If people want more from an approaching or on-air/in-theatre production, they turn to the internet.

Massive profit swells have caused the major studios to invest serious sums into their online production presence, well ahead of theatrical release. Television too has seen giant revenue streams from this massively underexploited platform. Saturn Visions™ has an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms – peculiar to the television and film business – that realise essential commercial aims, together with a world-class in-house online-design team. A serious online strategy should accompany anything but the very smallest of productions. If your production sites are not online businesses in their own right, you should contact Saturn Visions™ urgently.