Saturday 15 November 2014

Narrative Graphics

Narrative graphics are the black screen's usually accompanied by text which are shown throughout a 
trailer in order to enhance the storyline and allow the narrative to become clearer. Such examples
 of this come from Redemption, previously named Hummingbird, stating "Time to heal" 
and "A second chance" on two separate occasions. In conjunction with the shots shown, this tells us 
where the narrative is going and the tone of the film. By using relatively passive narrative graphics, 
instead of something along the linesof "Know your enemy" from Welcome to the Punch,
 one can infer that the tone will take a more emotionally based setting and there will be 
a lot more focus on the character and his relationships. Some examples of possible 
narrative graphics are shown below, which were made in one double period by yours truly.



The use of smoke in both narrative graphics board was inspired, once again, by Welcome to The
Punch.The white and grey blocks in the background show that the middle is transparent, leaving 
us to find amoving motion picture or video, either shot by us or taken from a  non copyright
 website. The different colours, red and light blue, are the most prominent colours in 
our film and bear connotations of danger, desire and high budget films. Although not finalised, 
the textual content of the graphicscomes from the idea of both the police and the
 underground gangs chasing our main character.


We found that the idea of having passive, still smoke on the narrative graphics looked
too amateur however and as such changed it to show more technical ability. Using Motion,
 we created overlays, one of which utilised the using the effects "Embryo" with other effects
such as blurs, and then animated to have it moving across the screen. Incidentally this overlay
 was also used in our ident due to how well it turned out. An example with the overlay on a
black background can be shown below, as well as the motion settings which were used.






The Example:





The two above narrative graphics are shown below without added effects from motion and
 how they were composed using Sony Vegas 12. This was done through using the effects Motion Blur, 
Wave and Colour Correction underneath a black rectangle with the text cut out which was done in 
Photoshop (The second graphic down comes first)












Our final narrative graphic comes from inspiration found in Hummingbird. Although not exactly 
a narrative graphic as it does not extent the story, as such, introducing previous films which the
 directors have made is an essential part in raising awareness of the trailer. Because of this we 
created a background on Photoshop, made up of various layers of non-copyrighted images and
 including a picture of a sunset I took while in Greece. This was then overlaid 
with "From the Director's of" and either "Existence" or "The Shadow Man" depending on 
which shot it was going to be for. These were then assembled on Sony Vegas, again 
utilizing the Wave and Glow Video Effects to produce this graphic.




JL

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