DB 2.0

The basic process I used to make this video was the following. I started by harvesting a whole bunch of old movies, shorts and instructional films from a wonderful website called Archive.org. I imported all these movies into Premiere and selected interesting shots from them, which I cut together, trying to fit the music, but also to create some sort of flow. All of the type I used was created in Adobe Illustrator using the fonts Plasticine and Cut it Out. I liked these two fonts because they are somewhat dirty and imperfect, but not overtly dark or threatening. I also felt that they echoed old film and television titles well, which I think adds a certain something to the piece. Text and video was compiled in After Effects. This was a very simple, but very time-consuming process, masking the text layers, with a little bit of feather, to reveal the foreground items I wanted shown, and applying a slight gaussian blur, to unify the appearance of type and image. There were also a few other techniques used, a bulge was put on the text in the shot with the crystal ball, and the position, scale and rotation of the text was tweened in a few shots, notably the basketball shot and the cigarette shot. All the techniques I used were really very simple, but I feel like they created an interesting effect, and I am happy with the result.