Moodboards and initial imagery 28th
Research into type faces 30th
Research into Title Sequences 30th
Research into sound 4th
Create some mock up imagery in Photoshop 5th - 8th
Intrim Crit 08/10/2010
Decide on Typeface 9th
Collate imagery and art work 9th
Finalise idea 16th
Choose sound + effects 16th
Intrim Crit 22/10/2010
Finishing and loos ends 22nd
Evaluation 22nd
Thursday 30 September 2010
Finding images, graphics and Typefaces for my Sequence
Finding a site called Fontspace.com has enabled me to find a verity of 60's and sudo 60's fonts for use in the title sequence.
There are many posters and graphics that use 'creative typography' to replicate the 60's style of type. Many of which are gimmicky and over stated. As my sequence is for a documentary/biography, i would like it to be tasteful and characteristic of the 60's, but not overbearingly 'Flowerpower.'
I've been debating using Helvetica as the font. Created in 1957 and having its name changed to Helvetica in 1960, it is from the correct era and would be clear and concise. However i dont think it would really sit with the overall feel of the sequence.
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Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein, Switzerland. Haas set out to design a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with the successful Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, its design was based on Schelter-Grotesk and Haas’ Normal Grotesk. The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage.
In 1960, the typeface's name was changed by Haas' German parent company Stempel to Helvetica (derived from Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for Switzerland) in order to make it more marketable internationally. It was initially suggested that the type be called 'Helvetia' which is the original Latin name for Switzerland. This was ignored by Eduard Hoffmann as he decided it wouldn't be appropriate to name a type after a country. He then decided on 'Helvetica' as this meant 'Swiss' as opposed to 'Switzerland'.
Another reason for Helvetica not sitting with the overall theme of the sequence is that as stated above, the typeface is neutral and has no intrinsic meaning in its form. The 60's i feel encapsulates a generation where everything had meaning, from actions to art, there was always agenda and the energy to see that agenda through.
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Book to Title Sequence
The book i have chosen is "No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison," by Jerry Hopkins.
No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography of Jim Morrison, singer of the band The Doors, written after his death by journalist Jerry Hopkins, with later "insider" information added by Danny Sugerman. The book is largely credited with revitalizing the popularity of the Doors and Morrison. Hopkins had done an extensive interview with Morrison before his death, but his first manuscript was rejected by major publishers. Sugerman began working as an assistant in the Doors office at the age of fourteen, and became their manager after Morrison died (replacing Bill Siddons).
According to Doors drummer John Densmore, Sugerman became "the manager and driving force behind The Doors" who "guided our career for over 30 years" until his death in 2005. It helped rekindle interest in the Doors by allowing fans, that were too young, not alive, or unable to remember, to see The Doors in action.
Taking its title from the Doors song "Five To One," the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early years of his life, his rise to fame with the Doors and his final years and death, respectively.
I chose this book because of how rooted Morrison is within late 60's counter culture and iconography.
I would like to portray the essence of 60's counterculture values & aesthetics - Psychedelics, shamanism and mysticism, happenings and demonstrations, Vietnam, ban the bomb, flower power, beauty in excess and freedom.
More directly, try to capture Morrison's romanticised influence and views on love, sex, death, music, poetry, art, shamanism, transcendence of the rational and ordinary and the will to be weird.
"I believe in a prolonged derangement of the senses to attain knowledge of the unknown" - Jim Morrison
Originally i looked at the great Aldous Huxley and his novel "Island."
A beautiful novel about future utopia/ distopia with themes of overpopulation, ecology, modernity, democracy, mysticism, entheogens, and somatotypes.
Two quotations that i feel encapsulate the books themes and ideas.
"And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances. Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles. And yet in spite of the entirely justified refusal to take yes for an answer, the fact remained and would remain always, remain everywhere -- the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion"
"History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma."
Although its a great novel, thinking about what the brief requires has lead me to steer away from it as its essence and meaning would be a lot harder and more time consuming to represent faithfully.
An interesting project that promises much exploration on subject matter that appeals to individual taste and offers the opportunity to project a perception of their personality.
No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography of Jim Morrison, singer of the band The Doors, written after his death by journalist Jerry Hopkins, with later "insider" information added by Danny Sugerman. The book is largely credited with revitalizing the popularity of the Doors and Morrison. Hopkins had done an extensive interview with Morrison before his death, but his first manuscript was rejected by major publishers. Sugerman began working as an assistant in the Doors office at the age of fourteen, and became their manager after Morrison died (replacing Bill Siddons).
According to Doors drummer John Densmore, Sugerman became "the manager and driving force behind The Doors" who "guided our career for over 30 years" until his death in 2005. It helped rekindle interest in the Doors by allowing fans, that were too young, not alive, or unable to remember, to see The Doors in action.
Taking its title from the Doors song "Five To One," the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early years of his life, his rise to fame with the Doors and his final years and death, respectively.
I chose this book because of how rooted Morrison is within late 60's counter culture and iconography.
I would like to portray the essence of 60's counterculture values & aesthetics - Psychedelics, shamanism and mysticism, happenings and demonstrations, Vietnam, ban the bomb, flower power, beauty in excess and freedom.
More directly, try to capture Morrison's romanticised influence and views on love, sex, death, music, poetry, art, shamanism, transcendence of the rational and ordinary and the will to be weird.
"I believe in a prolonged derangement of the senses to attain knowledge of the unknown" - Jim Morrison
Originally i looked at the great Aldous Huxley and his novel "Island."
A beautiful novel about future utopia/ distopia with themes of overpopulation, ecology, modernity, democracy, mysticism, entheogens, and somatotypes.
Two quotations that i feel encapsulate the books themes and ideas.
"And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances. Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles. And yet in spite of the entirely justified refusal to take yes for an answer, the fact remained and would remain always, remain everywhere -- the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion"
"History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma."
Although its a great novel, thinking about what the brief requires has lead me to steer away from it as its essence and meaning would be a lot harder and more time consuming to represent faithfully.
An interesting project that promises much exploration on subject matter that appeals to individual taste and offers the opportunity to project a perception of their personality.
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