FILM TITLES - collection

Title sequence has gradually and successfully taken the front role position in the presentation of a film. It has become the means through which movie producers make the first impression. Both Hollywood and independent studios today spend a lot of resources and valuable time conceptualising the title that precede their film.

I have always loved the concept and role that the title of a film plays within a film. The possibilities that it bring to the film that was why I was compelled once again to do my dissertation for my final year on title sequence. ‘TITLE SEQUENCE AN EXTENTION OF A FILM’

This submarine site is a site that is dedicated to showcasing the very best and memorable title sequences. As far as they are concerned, viewers should have had enough after seeing the title / opening credit of a film that is why their slogan is @ Forget the film watch the title’

Titles on this sites are categorised into Animation, Motion Graphics, mixed media and 3D. it has a huge achieve of titles that will be enough for content for a research project as well as a source of inspiration and generation of ideas.

'TAO' by Kervin Brisseaux

This image by Kervin titles ‘Tao’ caught my attention immediately I saw it. I have personally liked to work with silhouette images and have always thought about giving some sense of life and mood to a rather flat one coloured subject of a silhouette. This image does it for me. The light coming from the background, as well as the light cast on the face of the subject gives it this angelic look as though the subject is alive.

From this piece I can see the importance and impact that lighting can have on an image. It suddenly changes the visual attitude, interpretation and mood of the image.

DEPTH CORE

I often find myself coming back to this site depthcore.com. It has become one of the sites i come to as a source to banish all things called 'designers block'. The ranges of images always bring and serve as fresh inspiration for me. It has become almost like my ‘church’ of design. I do have a couple of site I always bounce back too when i don’t feel very inspired in my work.

Depth Core’s collections focuses on modern and abstract art. Incorporating design, photography, animation and audio.



The site is a very good look and will inspire most viewers.

Gustav Espenes

http://www.klippoglim.no/

A showreel showcasing a few experiments with motion graphics by Gustav Espenes with a dark distorted and disjointed soundtrack. The work contained in this show reel is from a variety of random animation test. The sound within the piece pretty makes it work as a whole. One cannot over emphasis the importance of sound within a piece of animation

NICK VEASEY

I decided to do some further research into the designers who were credited for the stunning image that grace the lucozade billboard ad posted on my last blog. I particularly find the style of the graphics very interesting as it takes the X-ray technology into a more dynamic and artistic way.



The artist responsible for the shot Nick Veasey is a British photographer and filmmaker primarily working within the medium of X-ray. Nick uses industrial X-ray machines typically employed in art restoration used to examine oil paintings. he works with a high dose of radiation.




I really wonder how he works his art out as even in a typical medical situation, a patient is exposed to radiation in an X-ray machine for only a fraction of a second while Nick exposes his subjects as well as himself to ionizing radiation for as long as 12 minutes to get a crisp shop. Its amazing what designers will do for art. the process and risk taken to constantly push the front line of design further away from mediocres. Constantly pushing the boundaries to produce something very original, giving birth to fresh concepts, ideas and direction in design.




for me, Nick work speaks more of courage , fearlessness and the need to always push up the limits within my work.

TED 2003

Opening title for the annual TED conference in Monterey. Created at Trollbäck + Company, an award-winning creative agency specializing in branding and motion graphics. The opening designed for the 2003 edition of the TED conference focuses on memes. The idea was to try and explore how thoughts radiate.

The TED conference is an annual conference that defines it's mission as "Ideas Worth Spreading". The conference covers topics in Science, Art and Design, politics, eduation, and Culture. It is a gathering of thinkers and doers coming together to find inspiration.

The title i thought had a smiler idea to the recent Lucozade ad campaign visual. The tiny bubble like objects that come together to form the human frame.

In exploring the thoughts of the human structure, the wire frame / skeletal look used as the camera zooms into the subject really works well. It allowed for abstract juxtaposition of elements to represent the randomness of the human thoughts.

LUCOZADE - Billboard


I like the way the text within the animation are placed and how it moves within the space. The random movement is symbolic of the constant motion of the human mind. The title is an idea well done and representative of the brief.

Nick Veasey the designer that worked on the Lucozade piece used X-ray elements combined with Candy Lab’s 3D orange Lucozade bubbles. They were integrated to complete this stunning image.

LUCOZADE - Agency: M&C Saatchi, AB: Mick Smith AD: Tistan Cornelius & Jo Miller.

FWA

The FWA - Favour it Website Awards is an industry recognised website award programme showcasing stunning flash websites that uses dynamic cutting edge technology together with inspirational ideas to set new paces to lead the way for future generation.

I've always come to browse this website when am working or researching into websites and interactive applications. Its always been a good source of inspiration for my motion graphic work as most of the sites contained in the websites have dynamic intros that am sure must have been created with other applications than flash or anything interactively driven.

THE FORTUM WEBSITE


I like the overall interactivity of the site. it stores a huge catalogue of sites that have won various awards as well as their own awards. The achieve is categorised by year which allows the viewer easy access to data by dates and years.

Preloader for Comcast Town


Welcome Page


Home Page


Not until looking into the site for my professional practise did i realise it was established in England in the year 2000. I've always thought it was an American initiative.

the website is really worth a look for every designer looking for inspiration for both still, moving and interactive platform.

STUNT HERO

Stunt Hero -

Stunt hero is the opener for a stuntman casting show series on Swiss national TV SF. designed and animated by LE MOB.

i came across this piece while researching into projects that have used the time freeze technique on way or another for my final major project.

I like the style of the over all animation. The camera movement and jump cut between the scenes are very typical of action films though is was presented in a more graphical way.

The scenes where the subject freezes in time and immediately changes in visual style to become grungier worked well with the sound, pace and the follow on scene as soon as the freeze continues in real time.

the style of the animation is reminds me of Ronin’s Black day to Freedom piece.

BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM

Since having done stuff on the green screen recently, I have become more interested in animations that involve a lot of compositing. It makes me appreciate the amount of effort, skill and attention to details given to a project at a storyboard level.

The details given to the project at the storyboard level cannot be compromised as shooting on green screen before compositing the final elements will require the shots of every character been worked out carefully. The position of the subject and the camera angle and more as how the scene will lead to the next characters angle. These were some of the subject that was discussed on our visit to Double Negative. As mentioned there some mistakes made at the shooting stage cannot be corrected e.g. issues like camera angle on the subject etc.

A lot of the footage from the animation was shott on green screen then later compositied in after effect. A lot of mask revel technique has been applied and used a lot within this animation and it works out well as transitions between scenes.

TILE CREATIVE

Tile creative is the portfolio website of web designer Matthew Tyas and graphic designer Lee Isherwood. The site contains a collection of their work from early days through to current projects. the collection of work are from both paid and unpaid, self initiated projects and commissioned projects,.

They have worked on some very interesting websites with stunning layouts and graphic content. on the websites, i found the way they presented the website projects that they have worked on very interesting.Screen grabs of the home pages is pasted on a picture of a MAC desktop.


It presents the website as hos it will appear on a computer screen. i thought it was a very cleaver use of the computer and is very appropriate for the subject.



Though this style appeared to take up a lot of space within their web page, it works with the overall layout of it.


I found a couple of logo design which i thought were very creative use of fonts.Though very simple they are yet they were complex in the details.

Sports Asset Management - SAM
A financial company looking after the interests of professional athletes and sports personalitie

i really like the way they brake the font apart and put them back to still represent the word it is intend to present where by creating something new from old.

Hair by Michelle
Independent mobile hair stylist based around the North-West

Toyism
A company specialising in the sale and distribution of Vinyl figures imported from Japan

This image of Toyism reminds me of Jacks Feel the goodness project from last year.

Signal Post
A small independent internet based company reviewing music and events



Voodoo
A themed bar based in the North-West serving mainly cocktail

It redefines the personality and characteristics of the font which in it own right has become a new font.

LOYAL KASPER

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Lexus pursuit of perfection - Lexus Pursuit of Perfection - We’ve Never Been Closer

A television commercial by Saatchi $ Saatchi Sydney as one of the pursuit of perfection ad series. The stunning night time cinematography worked pretty well for the object and the over all concept. The night time look allowed for clear display of some particular feature of the car. The fast edit is true to the theme of a pursuit. I absolutely love the feel when the car gradually slows down. It had this fluidic movement to it.

The whole ad really capture the essence of it.

Google Maps Typography

A very interesting image i found by accident. Its the work of Rhette Dashwood. a creative director based in Melbourne who took some time flicking through tones of google map hoping to find land formation of buildings resembling letter forms.

Letter 'C'


Seeing this reminds me of some of the things that we discovered / found while doing an elective in experiemental typography from 2nd year. We had to go around the college to collect and capture objects that may have accidentally have been placed together in such a way that they may represent an abstract or obvious letter form.

Letter 'K'

STUDIO DIALOG

Studio Dialogue is Canada based motion graphics and design studio founded by Steve and Robb Thompson in 2005. Their work is true to their goal: producing and creating compelling and exciting design regardless of the medium. A bulk of their work is designed for broadcast but they also create work for output in print and interactive media.

TV LAND

Series of promos designed by Studio dialogue for Canada network TV channel TV Land for CHUM TV.

The idea was to give a contemporary twist on a retro theme to their identity keeping it clean with a fresh look that will appeal to new and old audience.

Brand/NU

www.brandnu.co.uk

NOT TO SCALE

Not for scale is London based design studio specialising in all types of animated, illustrated and design contents for use across all platforms and media.

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Curry


I won’t think that an entire city made of cardboard will look so artistic and pretty. The recent curry as did catch my attention. Love the whole idea to bits. I find the use of the cardboards in the ad as very significant as card boards are a big part of the day to day business life of the various curry stores. The realistic card texture and lighting from the sun and moon works well in the scenes.


Honda ad - still



i personally found this piece of work very charming and a clever way to tell a lot of information about a company at a single view.

HONDA - ad

While looking at a variety of stuff and deciding on the visual style for my final major project I came across the various encore network promos designed by PMcD design. A design company based in New York, part of the transmedia branding and design group Lori Pate+, specializing in all aspects of broadcast and print design as well as production for the entertainment industry. Her clients includes: ABC, NBC, ESPN, NGC, Starz, Encore, PBC etc

ENCORE NETWORK - TV Promos

The encore promos they designed had many of the styles I was looking at the time.For the Encore network promo, PMcD design was meant to create a master look and feel that was strong enough to unify the flagship service of the station as well as the six genre showed on the channel. In creating the final piece, they incorporated iconic elements that are part of the cinematic experience for each genre while keeping them in sync with the overall style of the channel. PMcD used bold poster type, rich cinematography and vignette, were used to highlight the personality of each genre. The over all out look works really well as the consistency of the text and color palette created the right mood.

Another fascinating work I found was a piece they created for US TV network Starz. The piece created for starz was starz first original TV series called Crash. A series based on the Oscar Winning film crash. The title sequence was to convey the essence of the show. Characters from different backgrounds on separate journeys until fate collides and lives are changed forever. To capture this, McDonough the creative director at PMcD collaborated with Brian Kintz and the Starz network team using shots of a glass shattering and metal twisting as well as time- lapse footage of the Los Angelis skyline shot with the super high speed Phantom digital camera at a thousand frames per second. The slow logo is seen projected over myriad surface and layered throughout the footage and graphic elements.

STARZ CRASH - Title Design

The whole idea of the sequence is to graphically illustrate the uneasy and volatile quality of the relationships seen in the show. According to McDonough, the high speed photography of breaking glass and crushing metal visually suggest the random destruction of lives while the time-lapse photography was used to capture the character of Los Angeles while creating a feeling of chaos and randomness of life in general.

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