Research!

Idents were created for the BBC in the early 1950's, the idents were made so that the BBC could deifferentiate each of their channels and produce different idents for each channel. As years went on and new technology came available the idents begun to change from very basic filming (black and white for example) to full colour 3D images. As more channels started using idents to brand there channel it almost became a compition so their idents needed to stand out and be creative.

Firstly I've started researching into Idents on http://www.tvark.org.uk/

This is the first BBC 2 ident made in 1964.

This was the Christmas ident for 1977. This was probably made using perspex, lighted and then filmed as there was no 3D animation in that time.

This is the first electronically-generated Christmas symbol in 1986.

This ident from 1993 featured a made "2" remote control.

This ident was created in 2000 to show a new start for the millennium.

This ident was created to promote the Pedigree Comedy on Thursday nights.

This ident was the first to be previewed for the new idents of 2007.