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Animated Typography Love-in

Charlotte — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:15 +0000

The video below has been pinging around the interwebz for a few days now and I can’t help but post it as I have more than a soft spot for any form of animated typography. The type during the Jimmy Carter speech in Gonzo elicited an embarrassingly audible whoop when I first saw that film.

Inspired Mag have accumulated a mammoth 15 examples of kinetic typography based on popular films here. They do get a little same-y after you watch a few but the Rocky video is the crowning glory of the bunch.

My favourite use of this is still the Harvey Milk speech which is just down below:

Hi-Fi by Bante

Charlotte — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:27:23 +0000

I appreciate that at some point I should actually write something here, but for now here’s another video far more interesting than my musings anyhow.

It was made as a promo for the concerts at the Bellavista Social Pub but feeds right into my love of Jazz imagery.

via: Monsieur Bandit

The Masters

Charlotte — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:17:50 +0000

The man in the picture above is Errol Morris. I love him. I cannot explain how much, just know that I do

No documentary filmmaker has inspired me as much.

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Errol Morris

I bought this month’s Filmmaker magazine and was excited to see that they had an interview with Morris about his new film Standard Operating Procedure and then literally gasped with excitement to learn that Morris had enlisted the other man that has inspired me and led me to follow my dreams (via a tattoo of one of his designs) Kyle Cooper to do graphics for his film.

Needless to say this is now the most anticipated film of the year for me.

The Filmmaker interview is here

If you aren’t aware of him you may be aware of Fog of War

But if you haven’t seen any of his films I urge you to watch Thin Blue Line

and there is more on Kyle Cooper below…. excuse any gushing about his brilliance

Kyle Cooper

Directors don’t call on Cooper for a signature style; they hire him to dig under the celluloid and tap into the symbolism of a film.

Wired, 2004

Kyle Cooper is regarded as one of the most important opening title designers on history (the only other person regarded as highly is Saul Bass, the pioneer of titles)

Cooper revolutionised opening title design with the titles for Se7en (click to see below)

another highlight are the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang titles below: (I would’ve loved to have shown the title for Donnie Brasco as I absolutely adore them but they seem too hard to find, check them out if you can though)

for more of his work please take a look at his website Prologue