Tadpole Title Credits
On the Trollback website, I came across the title credits to Tadpole. I found these title credits to be very simple and very interesting. Throughout the piece the text comes in as if it's floating in the wind or maybe in the water since the title is Tadpole.
The background is scenery passing by as if someone was taping outside a moving car's side window. It goes by so fast and there is so much green, that the letters appear as if they are floating along in the breeze only to reveal names of actors and crew members.
The letters are all scattered as they start by passing over the first set of words. (it's hard to read what they say because the viewing window is so small.) As the gust of letters fly by, they transform the first sentence into another set of words. This is a very effective transition between text.
The text repeats this transition although it doesn't always do the same thing, and if it does, the amount of stray letters differs every thing. The different effects (that are somewhat similar) help keep the piece correlated and fluent. Every once in a while we get a glimpse of some scenery which includes a lake. This is how we know that the green movement that we are seeing scenery in the background.
The text is quite simple. It looks like it's just a plain serif font in white. It's a good choice because they wouldn't want to use anything too extravagant. The text is small so that it doesn't overpower the screen and also allows the longer statements to fit neatly on the screen. When the name of the movie comes up the font doesn't change much. It's larger than the other pieces, but doesn't fill the whole screen. This keeps the title credits flowing nicely without throwing off the viewer with a giant title. We can still recognize that this is the title without it having to take up every space available.
When there are times where there are two lines of text (towards the end), they use the title of the person in all caps and the person's name in standard sentence mode. They also had the title moving one way and the name moving the other. This separated the name and title effectively while still keeping them together.
I found this set of title credits to be well done with using minimal amounts of effects. It's simple and it serves it's purpose. As the viewer, I knew what I was reading and what title went with which person. It was a good inspiration for me to look at things a little more simply every once in a while and the every thing doesn't have to be so complicated.
The background is scenery passing by as if someone was taping outside a moving car's side window. It goes by so fast and there is so much green, that the letters appear as if they are floating along in the breeze only to reveal names of actors and crew members.
The letters are all scattered as they start by passing over the first set of words. (it's hard to read what they say because the viewing window is so small.) As the gust of letters fly by, they transform the first sentence into another set of words. This is a very effective transition between text.
The text repeats this transition although it doesn't always do the same thing, and if it does, the amount of stray letters differs every thing. The different effects (that are somewhat similar) help keep the piece correlated and fluent. Every once in a while we get a glimpse of some scenery which includes a lake. This is how we know that the green movement that we are seeing scenery in the background.
The text is quite simple. It looks like it's just a plain serif font in white. It's a good choice because they wouldn't want to use anything too extravagant. The text is small so that it doesn't overpower the screen and also allows the longer statements to fit neatly on the screen. When the name of the movie comes up the font doesn't change much. It's larger than the other pieces, but doesn't fill the whole screen. This keeps the title credits flowing nicely without throwing off the viewer with a giant title. We can still recognize that this is the title without it having to take up every space available.
When there are times where there are two lines of text (towards the end), they use the title of the person in all caps and the person's name in standard sentence mode. They also had the title moving one way and the name moving the other. This separated the name and title effectively while still keeping them together.
I found this set of title credits to be well done with using minimal amounts of effects. It's simple and it serves it's purpose. As the viewer, I knew what I was reading and what title went with which person. It was a good inspiration for me to look at things a little more simply every once in a while and the every thing doesn't have to be so complicated.
posted by Jessica | 4/19/2006 08:54:00 PM
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