Being This is a typography driven animation sequence based on a spoken word poem by artist Shane Koyczan. The poem is interpreted as the feeling of loving a person immensely, along with all the torment and anxiety that comes along with it.
The challenge of this project is to allow the type to embody the personality of the poet and the poetry’s intended meaning throughout the sequence with minimal illustrations, allowing the type to be the main vehicle of meaning-making. It’s concept and design is based on blackout poetry, where selected words from a found text are removed by ‘blacking out’ with a marker / brush stroke to form new sequences of verses with the words that remain.
Spoken Word by Shane Koyczan
Design / Animation by Eleena Bakrie
Music / Sound Design by Jean-Pierre Waksman
This project was done for Kinetic Typography under Prof. Duff Yong in the Savannah College of Art and Design. it was completed in three weeks.
This project was done for Kinetic Typography under Prof. Duff Yong in the Savannah College of Art and Design. it was completed in three weeks.
Typeface Exploration
Storyboarding
Original Design Board
In this project, i really wanted to challenge myself with a highly visual poem expressed mostly with typography. I had the most fun with the character of the 'boy' whom i reduced to simple shapes animated in Cinema 4D where he too eventually becomes little letters. I strongly believe that the expression of poetry should not only exist in the form of text. Spoken word brought in the element of rhetoric and performance, but combined with animation another dimension of poetry is wonderfully realised through the power of visualization.
