Chronophotography vs Saul Bass Title Design

連続写真／クロノフォトグラフィ / ソール・バスのタイトルデザイン

Chronophotography comes from Photographic Techniques and Saul Bass Title Design from Broadcast Design. One is technique and the other style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.

Chronophotography

Chronophotography — マイブリッジ 馬の疾走の連続写真 1878 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainChronophotography — マレー 自転車の連続写真 1885–90頃 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0Chronophotography — マレー 飛翔する鷺の連続写真 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0

Decomposes movement into successive instants, making the structure of time visible in one or a series of photographs.

Saul Bass Title Design

Saul Bass Title Design — ソール・バス『スパルタカス』タイトルロゴ 1960 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0Saul Bass Title Design — Saul Bass による『或る殺人』の図像 1959 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainSaul Bass Title Design — Saul Bass による『栄光への脱出』のポスター 1960 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Moves flat cut paper shapes and hand drawn capitals along simple straight paths in time with the music, stating the theme before the film begins.

ChronophotographySaul Bass Title Design
Era1870s–1890s1955 to 1990s
FamilyPhotographic TechniquesBroadcast Design
KindTechniqueStyle
CuesMultiple exposure / Sequential bodies / Equal intervals / Motion analysisFlat cut paper silhouettes / A palette held to a few colors / Uneven hand drawn capitals / Simple moves along straight lines
Best used forAnalysis that compares a movement step by step over time · Holding a trajectory in one frame to show differences in speedHanding over a work's theme and temperature before the story starts · Redesigning the obligation of credits as a piece in its own right
TypeNumber each phase and note the interval outside the frame in one formatOne face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat
CompositionDark plain ground with images spaced evenly along the direction of travelHand the names to the moving shapes, fix one reading position
MaterialMultiple exposure, fixed camera, constant interval, white markers on the bodyArt built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif
CautionOverlapping exposures at uneven intervals makes speed unreadable, and the picture stops analysing movement and becomes a pile of overlaid figures.Decoration unrelated to the feature is not the form, since only the structure that summarizes the theme survives, and when moving the names becomes the point there is no time to read them.

Put these two together

Photographic Techniques ／ Broadcast Design

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