kinetic type. final version.

This is my final video for the kinetic type project. My interpretation for Mark Twain's poem "Those Annual Bills" was focused around the idea of bills piling up. I added in the feeling of overwhelming, overpowering and the idea of being consumed through the visual rendition of the word placement on the screen. I portrayed the idea of when you start to lose your mind, become disoriented or start to freak out and hear a ton of people talking at once, but only snippets in the use of audio. I chose an interlude to a song that had a couple different people talking about various things, thus only hearing one word or a couple word phrases in each conversation.


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kinetic type. half step progression.

kinetic type. the firsts.

This concept is being further defined since my last post.

the concept.

This is all basically the same. I am still going with the lines of text dropping like bombs. I want each statement to be impactful and thus believe this can be accomplished through the hard drop of each line. My thoughts are to currently drop the first line in the stanza in two different drops, because it is the repetitive and most important line of "These annual bills." 

the typeface.

Helvetica Neue LT Std. Specifically the type when it first falls in will be 27 ultra light condensed and become 95 black. Based on the screen size and initial testing I think the light condensed type will drop in at 12px and grow to black to be 146px.

color scheme.

I really just want to stay with the contrast of black + white. I want to play off the fact that he was a writer, and thus the two most common colors related to writers is black + white.

the music.

checking out some instrumentals that I found recently, seeing if I think any will work well.

the first test in AE.

This is really bad + not even where I fully wanted it to go, but my first solo attempt at After Effects. That Ultra Light is so light, you can't even see it here. 

mock up/storyboard.

first shot/blank.

first movement/drop down of first line. 

first line dropped+stuck. 2nd line drops.

1-2 lines dropped+stuck. 3rd line falling.

1-3 lines dropped+stuck. 4th line falling.

all lines dropped+stuck, then drops the title.

close to end. all lines of poem drop down + poem starts over+continues dropping.

end image?

kinetic type. the concept.

My personal taste in poetry would not have selected this poem, so I started with a lot of difficulty in figuring how to portray this piece. So, I looked at this assignment as of assigned by an employer/client. As I just about always start out, I went searching on the Internet. From that I gained some more background information on Mark Twain, and what little information there was on the poem itself.

the poem itself.

-focuses on the debt+paying bills

-no deeper/hidden message

-full of humor

-poem could be about the growth of children to adults, which often develops somewhere between college/debt age with and the

the author.

-not known for his poems at all

-Twain got into some really horrible debt because he was bad with money
-he was able to pay it back through his friend connections for a job
-he had friends in many high places+throughout the world

-he was a american author+humor writer

the concept.

I want to drop the words of the poem onto the stage/screen like bombs from above. My focus is for each word to cause an impact, just as each bill does, adding one on top of the other. I am not sure if it would cause more impact for each line of text to nestle slightly on top of the line before or if each line should start to crush or stack on the line before them. The words will drop from the top really small, but by the time they reach the page/surface they will be larger to cause impact. This all following along the reality of bills piling up and becoming massive.

typeface wise.
I am thinking maybe a shift in weight from when the text first appears to when it hits the bottom of the stage or a shift in weight after the night before it finishes falling on it. I don't know at this point if it should be a serif or san serif. Initial thoughts were to have a serif and be similar to a typewriter, as Twain was a journalist+writer, but, I feel a san serif would cause more impact and be easier to read. I want to add music, but am currently nervous to even think what would be the best to use, due to my previous bad experience with choosing.

similar video?
There is one video that I keep thinking of. It uses repetitive image on the stage to reinforce the video message. I want to do that, but use only type. It is simple, yet impactful.