Thursday 3 February 2011

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. 


Wednesday 2 February 2011

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.