November 2009
14 posts
Watchthis is my final project. the sound is from the film transporter 2
Evaluation
When we first got given this brief I wanted to look at printing. I really like printing, however I did it for last years com-tech so after some thought changed my mind and decided to do typography. I have never really been into typography before, in fact I used to try and avoid it at all costs and not pay any attention to it in my work. At our first crit when we were asked what we wanted to do,...
The Print process
Design > pre-flight > package > pre-press> press > products
design decisions: size paperstock, folds and cuts print run, timescale
pre-flight: CMYK, images, resolution, half tones, colour profiles, spot colours, pan tones
package: Ensuring fonts, images & files are all together (insturctions for printers/ print spec, how will files get ti the printer
Pre-press: printers...
Thomas Boome
Thomas Boome is a graphic designer who has done amazing things with typography. I have tried making pictures out of letters by using the text on a path tool in illustrator however after seeing this i feel much less impressed with my own work. i
Saul Bass
Saul Bass is an American graphic designer. Bass first came nortorise when he created the opening sequence for Otto Preminger’s 1955 The man with the golden arm.
He also did the title for Hitchcock.
Film titles- Irrevesible
Opening title sequences in films can be very important in making people want to watch the rest of it. They can represent what is happening in the film or show a certain sequence that is going to happen. Irreversible is a french film. The whole film is in reverse this includes the opening credits which are actually the end credits. The credits come up from the bottom of the screen. this film is...
Type-Casting
I have been looking at the use of typography in films and not really knowing where to start I though I would start with opening credits but when researching this I discovered that there is a lot more to typography in film then I first thought.
When looking I found this website which is all about the typography used in films. Not only the type used in the opening and closing credits but the type...