Project 1: Rough Cut
For my Project 1, I chose to create kinetic typography of Charlie Chaplin’s Speech at the end of the Great Dictator. I went with a fairly simple faded parchment background and started blocking out the scenes. I choose a gothic font, Black Family, as with as a more legible calligraphy font, Pirata One. Because of the strong lines in the font as well as the speed of the speech, the animations of the words will have to be limited to rotations and movement. Stretching the characters or have more intricate effects would be detrimental to the meaning and cohesion of the overall film.
This rough sketch is less than it should be but I feel the idea is visible and the completed cut should capture the feeling of the speech well.