Media West Home Video

(1980s-early 2000's?)

Nicknames: "Weird MW", "Ugly M-W"

Logo: Against a black background, we see a small shape zoom into the screen at an angle from the bottom right corner. It finishes zooming in at the center Media West, Inc.of the screen, at which point we can clearly see it is a stylized 3D "MW" shape (with the M in blue and the W in white; the letters are conjoined). Once it stops, it rotates until the MW becomes a two-dimensional design. The text "Media West, Inc." appears in light blue at the bottom.

FX/SFX: The MW zooming-in, the title appearing. Not bad CGI.

Cheesy Factor: The "Media West Inc." appears at the bottom in a cheap way that contrasts starkly from the 3D design of the MW. The sound quality is also very poor and the M-W is really ugly.

Music/Sounds: The same piece of stock music from the second Worldvision Home Video logo, minus the whoosh at the beginning, plus the logo's pitch is 1 semitone up, like Crown Movie Classics. Those two details imply that the music may have been taken from the Crown Movie Classics logo and not directly from Worldvision.

Availability: Extremely rare. Mainly appeared on the On Assignment series of videos.

Scare Factor: Medium to nightmare, for those unfamiliar with the ugly MW, the music, and especially the zooming. Low to medium, for those used to it.