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OFFF Lisbon Titles 

(2008) 

directed by Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt. Shot over a day and finalised over an eternity with audio by Ben Lukas Boysen.

Following the Devoid of Yesterday talk and title sequence at OFFF New York we were invited to again both speak and present a new title sequence for the Lisbon event in May 2008. Rather than just repeat the previous titles we decided to shoot various sea life in a studio using macro lenses to act as a metaphor for the conference both taking place in Portugal and to have a closer look at the speakers and their way of thinking. Shot over a day and finalised over an eternity with audio by Ben Lukas Boysen. Directed by Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt.

 

Source: Rob Chiu's website

 

 

Devoid Of Yesterday is at it again, this time with the Lisbon OFFF main titles.

Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt nail this piece out of the park with some of there signature live action, editorial work, type and overall style. The sound design, by Ben Boysen, lends itself so well to their fluttercut, flash frame editorial style, that the ride becomes almost hypnotic and transiant in nature.

Fish heads and squid guts have never been so kewl!!

 

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OFFF Lisbon Titles, typography, animals, editing, Commercial

Reading

Rewind, Play, Fast Forward (2010) – The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video by Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) brings together different disciplines as well as journalists, museum curators and gallery owners in order to take a discussion of the past and present of the music video as an opportunity to reflect upon suited methodological approaches to this genre and to allow a glimpse into its future. (transcript Verlag)

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (1994) by French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. (Colombia University Press)

Eye 76 (2010) is Eye's first-ever special issue on the dynamic and continually inspiring sector of design for music. Designers are in a privileged position to add visual drama to music; to make it more understandable and enjoyable; to communicate the intangible essence of vibrating air molecules into the worlds of words, images and moving graphics. Design can make music look good, but when they really work together you have magic. (Eye magazine)

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