History Channel Ident Inspiration

Structured typography, warm palette, simplistic/minimalistic, plain backgrounds that focus on 'grand' typography.

I have also added in stills from the 'Ripper Street' title sequence by Momoco. I really like the way they used layers and transparency to inform the viewer of the historical content. It seems to be a more modern representation than the general history channels.

Lifestyle/Daytime Channel Ident Inspiration

Colourful, crisp, often a light background, abstract.

Children's Channel Ident Inspiration

Bright colours, humorous, exaggerated, fast-paced, erratic, often a play on typography/anthropomorphism/personification.

Horror Channel Ident

I have been researching horror tv channel idents and my favourite so far is by JiaminLiu for the Horror Channel - Christmas idents project. I love the spray paint effect cut-out style and the humour.

https://vimeo.com/34562797

Channels for ident creation

The TV channels that I am considering creating indents for are as follows:

• Horror
• Children's
• History
• Arts
• Lifestyle/Daytime

This list may change as the project progresses. I will be posting relevant videos that inspire me for each category shortly.

Graduation film - final project idea

Since the beginning of year 3, I have been keen to incorporate motion graphics and/or title sequences into my graduation project. The ideas for the project have been as follows:

• Title sequence for a Film Noir style short film and a separate ident

A filmmaker that I used to work for is currently making a Film Noir short film and we discussed the idea of me creating the relevant title sequence. I saw benefit in this as it would mean that I had creative control over certain shots filmed on the day and I could request particular shots solely for my title sequence. It would also give me the chance to work on a live brief, work collaboratively and be part of a film to be submitted to festivals.

As this title sequence would be short in duration, I was asked by my tutors to create/submit additional projects that had cohesion to the title sequence. I suggested either a Film Noir ident, or further title sequences for different genres. The Film Noir ident idea was discarded as it was deemed that it would be too similar to the title sequence, and might misrepresent my skills/interests as being too restricted (to one style).

• A 2^nd idea was that of creating 3 title sequences for 3 different genre films.

•     Upon further consideration, I decided that TV channel promos/idents were of great interest to me and would be beneficial to my showreel. I am intrigued by design decisions in relation to brand/channel briefs. My initial idea is to create around 5 idents – all relating to different ‘types’ of TV channels.

Animating to existing audio - I Met the Walrus (2006)

I have recently been discussing my graduation project with my tutors and one option is to enter the RSA Student Design Awards this year. To enter, I would need to animate a one minute audio excerpt from a lecture (provided by RSA). This would actually be somewhat of a challenge, as it takes away the control and timing of a scripted narration. I was concerned that matching imagery to somebody talking so fast would be, perhaps jarring, and actually quite difficult.

Ged showed me an animation related to this area - 'I Met the Walrus'. It is an award winning collaborative film, that animates the conversation/interview between John Lennon and a 14 year old boy in 1969. It is extremely good and flows well. I find it very inspiring, but can definitely see the sheer amount of work that went into it!