Annick and I were left in charge of the title sequence for our exhibition on Thursday. We met up last week and had a bit of a chat about the best way go about it. It made sense to divvy up the task even further into visuals and audio, elements that we have both been experimenting with this semester.
Our immediate challenge was figuring out how to fit everyones names in a title sequence of about 25 seconds. Annick did a fantastic job of coming up with an approach to tackle the issue. In a simple and effective manner, dividing the screen into four sections allowed four names to be displayed at any one time, which I believe invites the viewer to dart around the screen to digest the names. Rather than being bombarded with quick cuts (like we did last semester and probably nearly caused some epileptic fits). \
I was responsible for the music. I went through my back catalogue and used a snippet from an old song of mine that never really went anywhere. But here, I think it works. The cuts match to the beat and it’s not heavily abrasive and painful to listen to, which helps.
Over the last year and a bit Annick and I have often worked on projects together. It’s easy for us to discuss ideas and tease out concepts in order to finalise something. This was no different. We came up with the idea with relative ease and executed it in no time (Annick definitely put in more work than I…)