Partner Project with Elise Sansbury
Role
Researcher, Video Color Grader, Type Motionographer
Category
Integrating Type & Video, Visual Storytelling, Type in Motion
As partners, the research process of deconstructing the movie down to what the characters represented in the major theme of Faith vs. Logic culminated in a variety of visual themes that can be borrowed from the movie for the title sequence.
The most important of them was the uncertainty of the unknown, in this case being the outside wilderness, so detailed shots of the wilderness that represent an overgrown civilization now covered in plants that had a mind of its own. The glitches slowly overwhelming the screen also hint at the progression of the story of the movie and the characters' development as they approach the climax. In addition, the original language of the movie was honored by integrating Cyrillic along with the English text and playing a part as an interesting typographic texture. In the end, the title sequence took into consideration the visual language and progression of the movie to be an adequate introduction to the themes it presents.