Project Evaluation.

I have tried my very best to produce work that client will feel relevant to the Bond phenomenon.

I started by planning my narrative story, and on what style I would use for my opening title sequence, in this case I decided to go for a silhouette style, similar to the mad men opening.
Due to choosing this style I learnt how to create silhouettes by using vector images.

I had difficulties with keep track of time during this project, the majority of my time was taken up by  the actual creation of my A1 storyboard. I also had trouble with getting the photos that I would have liked, this was because I was the Bond model for the photos and I had to use photos that my other class mates had taken.

I would have liked to work more directly with the client. Doing this would help because then the client would have been able to have given me a better idea of what they wanted to appear in the title sequence, they would have also been able to ask me to change my design if they didn’t agree with something that I put in.

The shape and form created by my piece was inspired by Daniel Kleinman’s Casino Royale opening and the title sequence for Mad Men. I also like the Casino Royale title sequence’s way of continuing the story of the film during it’s running time.

Unfortunately  due to my earlier stated problem with the availability of photos it meant that I couldn’t follow my Narrative Story completely, so I decided to stick with the chasing of the villain but leave out the changing of vehicles and I also didn’t have a fight scene, also the gender of the villain was changed due to the limitations of the photo’s available.

I really did enjoy this project as it was working on a film series that I have enjoyed since I was a child and it allowed me to let my imagination run wild, however I felt that I still need to improve on my time management as I spent to much time working on one area when I should have been working on something that took time and was more important.

Storyboards

I created some experimental storyboards for the title sequence.

 

Different Style of Typography Art

Logo Character Design - This type of typography art would be used by a company perhaps looking for a company mascot, or it could be used by a company that's main target audience is children as a character made from a logo could really appeal to younger aduiences.

Image Replacement - This type of typography art is where you basically use words or phrases to create an image a lot of the time the text is coloured and are different sizes. I like this tupe of art coz it gives you a lot to look at whether it's the text or the the image itself.



Combination of Text and Photography - This is as the name suggest, a combination of typography amd something else, in this case a photograph. This type of art almost has a illusion type look to them.

Abstract shapes and letters - This is were shapes and letters have been altered in order to create a image that is different from the letter itself, on the other hand the final image may still resemble the original shape(s) and/or letter(s).

Typography Silhouette - This is where you use text to create the basic shapes of either someone or something and you only use the prominant colour for the each part of the subject and there is very little facial details.



Types of Storyboards

Film Style

As you can see with a film storyboard everything has been sketched roughly, this is most likely because they are only really used as guidelines for  the director to follow when directing a scene.

Graphic Novel Style

Graphic Novel storybording is different to the film story board as it is dawn in pencil first then inked by the either someone else or the same person, graphic novels are also most of the time in black and white, somtimes grey too, also with graphic novels the book is itself just one large storyboard, which is why it has so much more detail involved.

Comic Book Style

With a comic book it is similar to the graphic novel, but with comics they are pretty much always in colour and usually have a consistant number of frames on each page, usually 6-12 frames, they also emphasize sound effects and speech.

Comupter Game Style

In storyboards for computer games the emphasis seems to be more on the characters rather than the background, this is probably because the 3D graphic designers will be working on what the characters are doing instead of what the backgrounds look like, usualy the backgrounds are design as art concepts instead of storyboards.

Fashion Style

Storyboards for fashion shoots are very rough sketches with colour added too, this is because these storyboards, like the film storyboards, are really only created a  guideline for the photographer.

Graphics/Photographic/Tablet Style

In this story board, the frames are made by computer graphics and photography, but it is more or less similar to the film storyboard as it helps the director know what he looking to end up with.

Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who lives and works in Venice Beach.

Pettibon is known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ambiguous and/or ironic text that usually appear on his drawings.
Pettibon originally used indian ink, and his work was pretty much always black and white, but he then latter used watercolours, pencil, collage and other mediums meaning that more colour was added to his works.
Pettibon has also created animations with his works as well as just drawings, for example the music video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers song 'Monarchy of Roses' uses animated Pettibon styled images throughout the song along with the typical text that comes along with his work.

I feel that Pettibons work is very grim and confusing at times which leaves me feeling quite uneasy about his work.

Dominic McGill

Dominic McGill is an English artist/graphic designer who is currently living in America.

McGill is known for his work with typography, using it in most of his art, using as a sort of pattern for his work, he has created many pieces of 3D art which is covered in typography.

Because he uses typography on his work, his works aren't really that colourful mostly just black and white, however because of how he uses type of different sizes and shape and inverting between black and white, it makes his work look almost like a willow pattern dish.

I wouldn't say that I like McGill's work, but more that I find it interesting as he uses abnormal shapes and it would take a while to read everything that is on his work.

James Bond Typography Art

This is a piece of work that I created that was inspired by other people who have used typography to create art. I decided to use the Film Titles, quotes and the actors who have played Bond to create this piece.

Daniel Klienman

Daniel Kleinman is a British television commercial and music video director who designed the title sequence for the James Bond series of films from 1995 until he was replaced by MK12 in 2008.


In the majority of the Bond films that Kleinman designed (with the exeption of Casino Royale) he has informed the viewer of what the storyline of the film will be about via the use of how the women are portrayed in the sequence, for example in the Goldeneye opening, he has women tearing down communist icons implying that the film is set not long after the fall of communism.


In Die Another Day, Kleinman brought back the using of the title sequence to further the story (something not done since the opening of Dr. No) this also continued in the opening of Casino Royale (although Casino Royale's opening the use of naked women is absent).


I'd have to say that my primary reason for liking Kleinman's work is that I grew up watching the Bond films that he had designed the titles for, also my fovourite Bond film is Goldeneye which was the first bond film that he designed for.

Robert Brown John

Robert Brownjohn is a graphic designer from America who is known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture, he is best known for his movie title sequences the opening title sequences for the James Bond films, 'From Russia With Love' and 'Goldfinger'

In the two title sequences that Brownjohn created for James Bond consisted of typography and film shots 'projected' onto a naked/half naked female body, this was more than likely to represent the way that women are portrayed in bond films and to go with what has been a running theme with pretty much all of the opening titles of James Bond films.

I like Brownjohn's works as they are something different from other film openings and are a very imaginative ideas.

Narative Code

Roland Barthes developed a concept that every narrative is interwoven with five codes that drive one to maintain interest in a story. The first two codes involve ways of creating suspense in narrative, the first by unanswered questions, the second by anticipation of an action's resolution. These two codes are essentially connected to the temporal order of the narrative.

The Hermeneutic Code

The hermeneutic code refers to plot elements of a story that are not explained. They exist as enigmas that the reader wishes to be resolved. A detective story, for example, is a narrative that operates primarily by the hermeneutic code. A crime is exposed or postulated and the rest of the narrative is devoted to answering questions raised by the initial event.

The Proairetic Code

The proairetic code refers to plot events that imply further narrative action. For example, a story character confronts an adversary and the reader wonders what the resolution of this action will be. Suspense is created by action rather than by a reader's wish to have mysteries explained. The final three codes are related to how the reader comprehends and interprets the narrative discourse.

The Semic Code

A seme is a unit of meaning or a sign that express cultural stereotypes. These signs allow the author to describe characters, settings and events. The semic code focuses upon information that the narration provides in order to suggest abstract concepts. Any element in a narrative can suggest a particular, often additional, meaning by way of connotation through a correlation found in the narrative. The semic code allows the text to 'show' instead of 'tell' by describing material things.

The Symbolic Code

The symbolic code refers to a structural juxtaposition that organizes meanings by way of antitheses, binary oppositions or sexual and psychological conflicts. These oppositions can be expressed through action, character and setting.

The Cultural Code

The cultural code designates any element in a narrative that refers to common bodies of knowledge such as historical, mythological or scientific. The cultural codes point to knowledge about the way the world works as shared by a community or culture.

Gordon Douglas Ball

“To some extent I realized that the journey toward making a work of art was as important as the work of art itself. I’ve always made my photographs autobiographical. I like the idea that my photographs are poetry, in the way a poem is not a statement but a summary of feelings that somehow cohere into a meaning which can only be felt, rather than spoken. These photographs will tell you what I cannot say in words. I have always been attracted to the themes of romance, chaos, alienation and mainly reestablishing a sense of identity. I want to emphasize the beauty of those themes, and if my work is rooted with abstract ideas, then so be it”.
Gordon Douglas Ball
New York City            
2011

Gordon Douglas Ball is both a visionary and a rebel, whose interests center on an internal rather than an external reality. On the flat surface of the photographic plane, Gordon Douglas juxtaposes near and far, light and dark, large and small. His clear and sophisticated manipulation of light follows none of the established conventions of photography. - http://www.gordondouglasball.com/index.php?/statement/statement/

Some of Gordon Ball's photography looks very urban art like in the fact that they look like walls that have had paint splashed on them, and in turn they look very graffiti like. Most of Gordon Ball's photography consist of vibrant colours and most of the time show the whole range of the colour spectrum.

I like Gordon Ball's work as they are simple ideas that have a great look to them and they would easily catch the eye of anyone passing by.

James Bond Photoshoot

During this Project we had three different Photoshoots, one for photos of bond, one for photos of the bond girl and one for photos of Aston Martins. We also used the photos of the dancers that were taken for the Chi Fest project. I decided to take photos that would fit into what I wanted in my story board. The only real difficulty that I had whilst doing these photoshoots is that I was modeling as James Bond in two of them so I therefore had to ask me friends for there photos.

Different Kinds of Typography

Loverboy Font - This font gives the feel of love by using the shape of a love heart around each letter, also the way that the font is in a kind of wave, instead of a straight line, gives a less serious look.

Oh The Horror - This font is perfect for the horror genre as it looks like it has been painted on by blood and looks like it could be used in a horror movie, although it does look a bit cartoony.

Funny Pages - As the title suggests, this is a great font to used in a comic or a cartoon based images as the font has a very informal look to it even though it has a pretty consistant shape to it.

5th Agent Font - this font has a very futuristic look as well as looking quite square, it also lloks like it is writing that would be seen on a computer, this is why it would make a good spy themed font.

Top Secret - This font is pretty much a typical font that would be used on something that has a war theme as it is a stencil effect and looks like the stamp that is used for Top Secret files.

Celtic MD - This font looks almost like the font used in The Lord of The Rings, it also looks like it belongs in a fantasy as the time era that the font is based on is a time when most fanasy themed things are based.

Rio Grande Font - This font looks completely Western as it all square like and bold. This is the font that would be very recognisable in a cowboy film etc.

Life Drawing Session

Due to openings of James Bond having silhouettes of women, the class had a life drawing session in which a female model came in for us to draw, this was so that we could get he right proportions when drawing a human figure, we tried many different techniques for life drawing.

This picture is an example of drawing a moving figure, this technique allows me to get used to drawing a figure moving into different positions, during this exercise the model moved into four different positions and we each had 3 minutes to draw the each pose she took.

This technique of drawing with straight lines created an absract look to the figure and looks very picasso like (cubist) I also attempted to add some tone to the figure.

This was my attempt at using the negative space on the paper to create a silhouette of the model, this is a technique that I could improve on.

This is just a simple portrait that I did so theat I could get used to drawing the outlines of a human figure.

This was me using white and black pastel on black paper, this was so then I could practise the different tones (Light and Dark). This one is my personal favourite and I'm pleased with how this one turned out.

Maurice Binder

Maurice Binder is best known for creating the gun barrel sequence for the the James Bond films, as well as designing and creating the openings for all the Bond films (excluding From Russia With Love and Goldfinger, both created by Robert Brownjohn) prior to Godeneye in which he was succeeded by Daniel Kleinman after his death in 1991 from Lung Cancer.

Binder's work for the bond films mostly consisted of silhouettes of naked women and shapes, his style of work has made the bond title sequences some of the most recognisable pices of cinema. His title sequences help create the fantasy of James Bond and instantly gets the viewers into the mood of the film.

Just by using auch a simple style Binder has managed to create on of the most iconic title sequences in the history of cinema and has become the influence of his successors that have created James Bond openings.

Retro Bond Experiment

After being given a tutorial for making a photo have a retro mute look, I read through the tutorial and this is what I produced.

Bond Sin City Experiments

Afer watching a tutorial of this effect being done, I decided to have a crack at I myself, this effect is similar to my silhouette experiments which is why I was keen to try it out.  

This style gives the image a darker look to it, yet it looks dramatic and I feel that this syle would fit with James Bond as Bond himself has his dark moments.