Finding a bumper (stinger?) that makes the right statement

Question

I am taking a break from listening to hundreds of 5 to 7 second long audio clips trying to find just the right beginning to go with my employer's logo for a telecommunications technical training series. I have the graphic design from the company web site, and I have separated the text and the logo on to different layers of a Photoshop file. I will probably keep it simple, but I can always take it into After Effects if I can't get what I want in Premiere Pro.
Finding the right audio is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. Before I started the search, I thought I had a general idea of what I was looking for. Something a bit cinematic, like a dramatic start to a trailer. But having listened to so many already, I can barely remember what I had in mind to begin with. I don't think I am going to use a music bed under the voiceover. No real point to that.
I would like something complementary to go at the end of each training video, so that makes it even harder. They really have to complement each other. Which eliminates some of the ones I rather liked.
By the time I am done, I will have spent more time on the first five seconds and the last five seconds, than on the entire middle part of the first few videos combined.
Oh well. Back to my search.

Answer 1

Sounds like time for a break to refresh yourself.  Do you have another project to work on for a short while?
Yes. I started working on the text and images for the first lesson. And the script. And for now, I have a bit of audio I can use if nothing better comes along.
The first lesson is about an acronym that people in my business use every day, but I recently discovered that not everyone has a clue as to what it actually means or what it looks like. The acronym is MPOE which stands for Minimum Point Of Entry. It is where the telephone company drops the circuit in the building for the customer to use. I used Premiere Pro for the Intro but I am using After Effects to provide the text for my voiceover. Nothing fancy, but you know how After Effects is. You start out simple and then there is always something a little better, and a little better, and you finally have to stop.
I have to keep fighting with myself. I don't want to spend a lot of time getting fancy. I did take the time to call up a color wheel so that the color of the text complements the color of the logo. Nether of which are particularly attractive colors.
This is my first pass at a simple intro. The purple text is actually a title in the lesson specific project not a part of the basic intro. Like I said, nothing fancy, but this stuff is going to be played on a laptop or office desktop. Not on a HDTV.
I took a different track and went with a sound effect instead of music. I don't know if I will keep it, but I might. I just want something recognizable that people will associate with my tutorials.
The goal is to put together a bunch of tutorials and release them once or twice per week along with a BLOG post. So I will probably get at least two done before I release the first one. That way I can put a teaser in the first one about what I am going to talk about in the second one. A new BLOG requires a way to get people to return. And as boring as the topic might seem to you, if you heard the acronym every day, you would probably be inclined to watch the lesson. You know?
I kind of like the little pop as the topic shows up on the screen. As I said, just something to make it easily identifiable as one of mine.