Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Title Sequence: Hand the names to the moving shapes, fix one reading position
- Type
- Set in Title Sequence's manner (One face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat), and let Visual Music's lettering (Use no lettering, or treat any lettering as one more figure) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Title Sequence's material (Art built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif); bring in exactly one thing from Visual Music (Map hue to pitch and brightness to dynamics when choosing color).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Title Sequence 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.
- Visual Music Wiring shape size straight to volume, which hits the beat and never shows the structure of the piece.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Title Sequence (Style, 1955–) and its accent from Visual Music (Style, 1920s–). Structural cues: Cut-paper shapes; Type synced to music; The theme compressed; Art independent of the feature. Accent cues, used sparingly: Abstract forms in motion; Chords of color; Counterpoint of sound and shape; No narrative. Composition: Hand the names to the moving shapes, fix one reading position. Type and lettering: One face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat. Let one material quality come from the second style: Map hue to pitch and brightness to dynamics when choosing color. Mood: Exhilaration, Luxury, Play, Calm, Technology. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Title Sequence 1955– / Style / Broadcast Design
A film's opening minutes designed as a work in their own right, with shape, type and music synchronized to state the theme before the story does. Saul Bass redefined the title as a prologue rather than a preview.
- Visual Music 1920s– / Style / Experimental Film
Film art that translates musical structure into abstract shape, color and motion. From the color organ through abstract animation to today's audiovisual work, it forms a lineage of listening with the eyes.
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