Week 2 Assignment 2 Homework

Concepts in Motion Design Week 2

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho’s opening title is amazing. I love how the horizontal and vertical lines run across the screen building the text. Along with the music, it adds suspense to the theme. I like how when it says “Starring: Anthony Perkins” the Starring is very tiny and Anthony Perkins is very big. I also like that the text is all in caps. There’s really nothing I don’t like about this intro.

Irreversible. Wow. I was shocked to see this movie on the list… only because I used to own it. I bought it because I saw a clip where a guy got his face smashed in repeatedly by a fire extinguisher. It was SO well done! I have since sold it because I could NOT watch the whole thing again… other parts of that movie are far too realistic. It’s pretty traumatizing.  The credits run in reverse, as do the events in the movie. It is in French.  I like how the credits are put closer together and how they added the >’s. I would probably like the colors red, black, and cream/white together anytime, in any situation. I like the darker schemes, though. Certain letters are also reversed, to add to the effect. The way the text begins to tilt gives me that sick feeling I had throughout most of the movie. A fantastic choice. I love the flashing text effect when the actor’s names appear, the drum beat makes it intense.

Week 2 Assignment 1 Homework

Concepts in Motion Design Week 2

I designed 3 logos for my movie poster website in Adobe Flash CS4 [saved as CS3, I hope it works!]. It went pretty smoothly. The drawing techniques in Flash are similar but very different than Adobe Illustrator. I liked this logo and this logo.

This logo, however, looked way better drawn in pencil. Without tracing the shape, I found it difficult to get the lines exactly how I wanted. At least I have the other two which are wayyyyy better.