Art 240, Week 11: Kinetic Typography + Home Sick

Ira Glass Video

Rumble in The Jungle

The professor was in a car crash (thankfully she is okay) and couldn't make it to class today. I also didn't make it to class today because I was sick, (and didn't want to be the guy that make everyone else sick) but I can do the assignment we were given via email from home easily.

We had to watch a bunch of Kinetic Typography movies and pick which two we liked best and why.

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/some-of-the-best-kinetic-typography-examples/

I picked the videos with Ira Glass talking about story telling and Muhammad Ali talking about the Rumble in The Jungle. I've linked them at the top of the post. While most of the videos were good, I chose these two because they appealed the most to me visually and phonetically.

Ira Glass: This video was successful in keeping pace with Ira Glass' verbal tics. I enjoyed how it switched up the pace when the dialogue was slow or fast. The typeface was clear and lent itself to Ira's signature annunciation. The various transitions were entertaining and never got so complicated that they took away from what you were reading. The background gave off a bookish feel which went well with the overall "storytelling" theme. The message of the video, while audio in nature, is also something that creative people can learn a lot from.

Rumble in The Jungle: This video was short, but it synced quite well with Ali's legendary rhythmic style of speech. The images (even though in our monologue project we aren't allowed use of them) worked together with the speech to make it even more interesting. The wiggling of the typeface gave visual feeling to the skill Ali had with a microphone. He was quite verbose and the constant movement matches well with the verbal dancing he was famed for. The wiggly movement also conveyed a feeling of the words being beaten down and hitting the canvas of a boxing ring.

Some runners up were the video about Futura's history (it was in French I think) and the It's Gonna be all right video with the sentence morphing.