Julien, I can see your infographic as a web series, the ‘Signs you are watching a film by…’ monthly archive of director traits. It work’s very well and could even be expanded into a ‘single’ director series (amount of traits permitting) - perhaps even an ‘industry’ version? In all cases there’s an audience (and a market) out there for this kind of film, as simple a concept as it appears to be. The reason I mention these options is that your film has a universal appeal both in terms of its design style and its content. It communicates clearly too - You’ve been careful to make sure you use the right information, the right terms, and supported it with economic visual explanations. These capture the spirit of each director in their design language too (my particular favourite being ‘Blondes’ with the appearance of Alfred Hitchcock). So, in terms of education the audience is being stimulated on multiple levels (including the sound). All of your scenes are animated well and have a good sense of clarity to the way in which items move on and off screen. The use of the film strip titles are also a nice punctuation in your film too. There are a few minor corrections that perhaps could be applied, for example the ‘optical tricks’ Melies scene could have used the previous scene as its source of transition instead of bringing on another graphic (the bugs) – personifying the optical trick in the transition itself. The ‘Orson Welles’ title takes a little too long to settle (in comparison to others). I’d suggest using ‘A Sophisticated Death’ (or similar) instead of ‘Sophisticated Deaths’…it scans a little easier. Overall these a very minor tweaks. – Well done Julien, a very successful project.
Julien, I can see your infographic as a web series, the ‘Signs you are watching a film by…’ monthly archive of director traits. It work’s very well and could even be expanded into a ‘single’ director series (amount of traits permitting) - perhaps even an ‘industry’ version? In all cases there’s an audience (and a market) out there for this kind of film, as simple a concept as it appears to be. The reason I mention these options is that your film has a universal appeal both in terms of its design style and its content. It communicates clearly too - You’ve been careful to make sure you use the right information, the right terms, and supported it with economic visual explanations. These capture the spirit of each director in their design language too (my particular favourite being ‘Blondes’ with the appearance of Alfred Hitchcock). So, in terms of education the audience is being stimulated on multiple levels (including the sound). All of your scenes are animated well and have a good sense of clarity to the way in which items move on and off screen. The use of the film strip titles are also a nice punctuation in your film too.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few minor corrections that perhaps could be applied, for example the ‘optical tricks’ Melies scene could have used the previous scene as its source of transition instead of bringing on another graphic (the bugs) – personifying the optical trick in the transition itself. The ‘Orson Welles’ title takes a little too long to settle (in comparison to others). I’d suggest using ‘A Sophisticated Death’ (or similar) instead of ‘Sophisticated Deaths’…it scans a little easier. Overall these a very minor tweaks. – Well done Julien, a very successful project.