Raging Bull

My favourite opening title sequence is for Raging Bull love the slow motion and the way he dances round or warms up stalking a ring alone, with gray shadows and smoke around him to the music which is opera Cavalleria Rusticana, by Pietro Mascagni all go perfectly with the beautiful black and white cinematography, and a refined sense of gritty design. At first I thought the silhouette of the ring ropes where symbolic of bars giving us a clue that he is somehow trapped in the ring or like a caged animal. It's a striking image of a man alone, which De Niro remains throughout the movie.

After researching I realised the Director Martin Scorsese wanted Robert DeNiro’s Jake La Motta a coiled human animal, caged like a note on sheet music; fierce, balletic and balanced to its function. The ropes of the ring are framed like bars of music. Indeed, “give me a stage where this bull here can rage…that’s entertainment.”

I really like the idea of using the main character in the title sequence

oddysey in Rome

Ttle Sequence

The begining reminds me of a hitchcock movie but it is when the blurred lights come in I think it works so well I love the multi layers of really nice and interesting looking shapes created by just lights. The piece is not over complicated and not the most exciting pace but it works seemlessly. Each time the beautiful text appears it looks like a gorgeous composition using or creating angles with the lights. The text and lights work pefectly together and the black and white with a very haunting soundtrack work really well.

Mutual Friends

From Craig Purkis at Liquid TV:

Representing the characters of this BBC drama, playful orange and white dots dance about a stark black background interacting with each other and giving us a clue as to how these two spar their way through each others lives.
Despite it’s 2D appearance the sequence was animated in Maya not only to give the animator greater control of the characters and environment, but also to add fluidity and personality to the spheres. As the turn around time for the sequence was just a little longer than it takes to make a cup of tea, an added benefit of animating in Maya was that we could quickly render in HD.”

Making things beautiful

Was just researching color waves and found this image I love the grungey but colorful style and I can imagine this in motion. I would have it so it would all burst out of the word "DULUX" very similar to my other animation. The idea here though is that it would change from rungy wall then out burst all the color and transforms it into something beautiful hopefully

Title sequences by Saul Bass

Carmen Jones (1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Exodus (1960)
Advise and Consent (1960)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
The Victors (1963)
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
The Cardinal (1963)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Grand Prix (1966)
Seconds (1966)
Broadcast News (1987)
Big (1988)
The War of the Roses (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Age of Innocence (1993)
Casino (1995)

Tutorial help

www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/the_ring/

A tutorial I did using After Effects because it was using the particle system to create light streaks similar to how I want mine to look and I can adjust them anyway once I get the general idea so I can do a few mock ups

mood image

kind of the style I would like bit trendy and more women orientated. The light streaks will be in fluid full motion giving a kind of organic liquid style but looking like lights.

adidas+dulux

Seen this and thought that they didnt look like your ordinary trainer colors but more like colors you would have in your house like the blue or green in the bathroom

Like the way different materials have been used to create the emblem at first I thought it was paint

While messing with the idea of mixing brands I thought about the range of adidas called adicolor and I thought about making a Dulux range so i decided to design some in Illustrator. In some magazines they are sold like paint in there own color range

Dulux advert

although I dont relly like the advert I like the use of the color blocks which, I think are based on the color palletes they have, and linking there clothes to paint colors. It seems to be aimed at young couples as the actors and actresses all seem quite young and they seem to be all fashionable and the advert itself seems a bit more stylish than usual dulux dog ones.

Heineken advert

I like this advert it was done in the early 90's and like the way it plays with humour using the "Dulux Dog" but not to advertise paint but the beer was thinking of different ways this could be used mixing up the adverts brands.

An advert for sonys PSP going with the idea of mixing brands together in advert I thought about the fact that on this advert and others such as the sony Bravia one use paint but you would never usually think what paint it is. So I came up with the idea of changing the brand in this advert and making it an advert for DULUX

Rumble Fish

was watching the film Rumble Fish and thought of an idea building on contrast a technique used similar to Sin City. Using black and white then using vibrant color on important or relevant information, items of clothing or animals etc

so I came up with the idea using the paint as the only color in the scene the rest balck and white "dull" without color or something like "stand out with DULUX"

Sony Bravia

Rothko

One of the preeminent artists of his generation, Mark Rothko is closely identified with the New York School, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s as a new collective voice in American art. During a career that spanned five decades, he created a new and impassioned

form of abstract painting. Rothko's work is characterized by rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale; yet, he refused to consider his paintings solely in these terms. He explained: It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

like this what he says here about painting and I am trying to link it to the dulux ad

House of Cards

A new television advert for UK housing and homeless charity Shelter was Developed by American advertisement company Leo Burnett.

quite a long advert its on for 60 seconds and looks like a mixture of 3-D compositing and live action. The advert features houses made of cards collapsing in on themselves while you are passing by on a train. I like this advert even tho you are sat in a moving train it has got a slow pace and I think has a haunting and sinister style it may be due to the tune alot aswell. I think it works really well the cards look very real.

PJ WEB

PJ WEB


Tal Rosner video...

another inspiration I got from his work was his use of still images in his videos layering them up moving them round to create the illusion of movement. I think this is using After Effects it seems like the easiest one to use

Digital images

some digital images I found doing my research for the science brief as I thought that they resemble black holes or space phenomenons but wasnt quite sure how to get them to fit in with my other ideas

Science research

An advertisement by MK12 Best Buy after seeing the vector animation I really wanted to do something similar as I wanted my animation to be quite fast paced I didnt want to much detail so it would be less to take in. I also thought it would resemble cartoons as my target audience was a young one I thought this would be appropriate.


Two stills from my own work using a similar technique. The technique I used for mine was live action on a green screen then took the footage into After Effects and using the key light then alpha matting the color I wanted over the actor which created just a single color character and I was really pleased with the outcome.

Tomorrows World

Still from my tomorrows world work using After Effects. As in the Skyfighter title sequence I tried to simulate a hud it was also very dynamic, so to create more movement I developed a
3-D enviroment for the camera two move around

Sky Fighters

Title designer Laurent Brett: The title sequence was inspired by blueprints and model kits.
Sky Fighters

Again this title sequence uses 3-D which I wont be using although the transitions from wireframe to 3-D planes into live footage were very nice but I am yet again limited to using little or basic 3-D in after effects. What really did influence me from this sequence was the ever present referencing of the heads up displays as the iron man did. Think this is a style I am fond of as the layouts look really nice sometimes.