Yes Man Film Credits

I was watching the film Yes Man with Jim Carey in it and found towards the end the film had dragged on to long and was bored. Until the credits came on and i found myself surprisingly drawn in! The angled paint splash typography was really effective and I liked the use of color and general style. I also felt it reflected the film in that it was spontaneous.

Amnesty Death to the Death Penalty

This is one of the most powerful adverts I have seen this year. I watched it over and over and really think its brilliant. The symbolism in the candle and the wax is outstanding and it slowly shows scenes of various countries death penalties melting away I found it really moving. The typography at the end written in wax just rounds it off at the end and explains what the advert it about after already drawing you in from the viscous death penalties, very accurately made from wax melting away.

Street Museum

I was reading creative review and saw this app for the Iphone in which you can hold your iphone on a certain street view and it will take you back to the past and show what the street view was years ago. Its a  really interesting app, but i found the advert they put together for it even more interesting where they had combined the image on the phone with the present day image and took the phone away. It really shows a massive jump in time and really advertises the app to its full potential. Street museum visits rocketed after this app and advert was made which also shows the power of advertisement.

Anamorphic typography

After looking into the Typolution i also found this video on anamorphic typography, where typography is written so it fits around rooms when the view point is changed the whole thing is visible. Its interesting and clever but i would also like to see something more complex with added color ect.

Typolution

Here I had just been looking through Youtube at some general typographic videos and i came across this one where everything evolves out of typography. I think it was really cleverly put together and was probley something just done for fun. I particularly like the way the rain was expressed and even bounced of the ground in the beginning. 

Film Credit Typography

Looking into film typography and how it is used we were asked to find some examples of our own. What interests me most is the way in which each typography section leads onto the next. Theres often a line or somthing to follow which makes it engaging. Its important for film typography to have something interesting and engaging for viewers to draw them in, as its mainly names and job descriptions its not always something an audience will pay attention to unless its engaging in its own way. Here are some examples that i found.

Thankyou For Smoking

Very fitting to the title and seems to be promoting smoking! Each name is in the style of a cigaret packet and the sequence has a very vintage feel throughout.

Big Fish

I picked this one out because its all hand rendered and illustrated, which gives it an earthy feel It all fits well together without having  complicated motion animation/film.

Frost

Here i went out with the title Frost to go and take some photographs in preperation to put togeather my own photomontage. On the day i went out however there wasnt as much frost as i had hoped but i still found some frosty images in which i was able to capture some nice textures and bright colors. Here are a few of the photographs i took.

And here is a quick photomontage i put together using photoshop. If i had had more time i would have liked to print them out and stick them together by hand. Also to involve more random images other than  just the ones i took. 

Photomontage

Photomontage was developed in berlin by dadaists. Photomontage is essentially a collage of photographs and images combined to make a new image/art. 

DaDa 1915-1922

Dada was an international movement among european artists and writers in the early 20th century which began in Zurich, Switzerland, during the first world war. Dada was anti war, and anti art, it was supposed to mean nothing and not imply any cultural or religious belief. This was a revolt in society against the government, unlike WW1 posters which potentially sent millions to their death during the war. 

Dadaism has one rule, no rules. Assemblage, collage, photomontage and the use of random objects are just some of the main characteristics that visually make up the art (or non-art) that Dada artists (or non-artists) produced. Dadaism is ridicule and revolt against art and any standing rules but its artists were all extremely serious. Abstraction and expressionism were its main influences, followed by cubism and to a lesser extent futurism.