Saturday 8 October 2011

Intertitles

While having a small discussion with Chris and Sarah we thought of maybe adding intertitles to show chapters in my journey like in a story or silent movie. So i had a quick look at what some of the very first intertitles looked like and some more modern intertitles to get a feel for their aesthetics and purpose. What i have noticed is they are used for dialogue within silent movies/to express emotions is silent movies/portray action scenes and to show chapters within narrative. The stereotypical look as you would imagine an intertitle to look like would show text in the centre of the screen with some sort of patterned border framing the type.
Even with the more modern intertitle for example 'Hey Arthur' still uses the patterned border to frame the dominant image and title however on this one it seems to have more pattern to make it appear more visually exciting to their target audience as it is less sophisticated.

So i would have to think of the correct aesthetic way of using an intertitle that relates to my animation. I need to think about the overall mise-en-scene, colour scheme and target audience for my animation to get it just right.

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