Chaylee
title cards wrap up
This project was centered around rhetoric. This portion of the class was focused on how to manipulate language and imagery to produce results congruent with your ideas. We were told to pick a project that someone else in the class had done, but that I had not yet done within the program. I chose to create a series of title cards to a movie, which then morphed slightly to an intro sequence to a movie because of context. I started off almost immediately knowing which movie I wanted to add to and why. The Hunger Games is the movie I chose because the intro sequence, to me, is inconsistent with the rest of the movie. I wanted to create an intro sequence that involved the viewer as if they were a spectator of the Hunger Games, rather than boring them with text on a screen.
The current intro sequence to the Hunger Games involves a fade-in fade-out of white text, in a strangely chosen rounded typeface, on a black background. To me this seems lazy, because the movie clearly had a large budget. It is definitely not my favorite movie, but it deserved a better intro sequence bar none, so I decided to give it a face lift.
My initial idea turned out to be rather inconsistent with the movie as well. I began with the idea of creating a Saul Bass inspired intro sequence, but the cut out shapes that he is known for contrasted from the dark reality of the movie. I needed an idea that could convey that this was a TV show meant as entertainment, while still being a death match against children. It needed to be creepy in a different way than I had originally planned, so I scrapped my idea and started from scratch by writing down 5 words that I wanted this intro sequence to convey: Spectacle, Dystopia, Control, Fear, Inescapable. Using these 5 words, I made a series of stills that were congruent with the graphic style used in the movie, as well as playing off of the movies key features. The fuzzy screen in the beginning of the sequence with the Capitol logo and scrolling text is meant to be one of the projected screenings of the Hunger Games seen within the movie in the poorer districts. The typeface is cold and commanding like the content of the text itself, which I paired with a cold, yet lively cyan color seen throughout the intro and the rest of the movie. Showing the viewer this instantly brings them into the movie as a part of the Games. They are a spectator. They will be viewing these children killed for sport as entertainment, and I think this will find the audience with a sense of grief and guilt that was not present in the original passive text. Overall I think this solution is much more effective than the original, and sets the overall tone for the movie quicker and more efficiently.
title cards wrap up
This project was centered around rhetoric. This portion of the class was focused on how to manipulate language and imagery to produce results congruent with your ideas. We were told to pick a project that someone else in the class had done, but that I had not yet done within the program. I chose to create a series of title cards to a movie, which then morphed slightly to an intro sequence to a movie because of context. I started off almost immediately knowing which movie I wanted to add to and why. The Hunger Games is the movie I chose because the intro sequence, to me, is inconsistent with the rest of the movie. I wanted to create an intro sequence that involved the viewer as if they were a spectator of the Hunger Games, rather than boring them with text on a screen.
The current intro sequence to the Hunger Games involves a fade-in fade-out of white text, in a strangely chosen rounded typeface, on a black background. To me this seems lazy, because the movie clearly had a large budget. It is definitely not my favorite movie, but it deserved a better intro sequence bar none, so I decided to give it a face lift.
My initial idea turned out to be rather inconsistent with the movie as well. I began with the idea of creating a Saul Bass inspired intro sequence, but the cut out shapes that he is known for contrasted from the dark reality of the movie. I needed an idea that could convey that this was a TV show meant as entertainment, while still being a death match against children. It needed to be creepy in a different way than I had originally planned, so I scrapped my idea and started from scratch by writing down 5 words that I wanted this intro sequence to convey: Spectacle, Dystopia, Control, Fear, Inescapable. Using these 5 words, I made a series of stills that were congruent with the graphic style used in the movie, as well as playing off of the movies key features. The fuzzy screen in the beginning of the sequence with the Capitol logo and scrolling text is meant to be one of the projected screenings of the Hunger Games seen within the movie in the poorer districts. The typeface is cold and commanding like the content of the text itself, which I paired with a cold, yet lively cyan color seen throughout the intro and the rest of the movie. Showing the viewer this instantly brings them into the movie as a part of the Games. They are a spectator. They will be viewing these children killed for sport as entertainment, and I think this will find the audience with a sense of grief and guilt that was not present in the original passive text. Overall I think this solution is much more effective than the original, and sets the overall tone for the movie quicker and more efficiently.