[Prologue Unit 4] Comic Art - Evaluation

For this intro I ended up using a lot of the same images used in last years video, which served the same purpose in both videos - working as visuals for a build-up sequence which then leads into the footage from Dredd and the title cards. This gives the audience some introduction to the artists work, and I think this new video executes this more successfully. Last year the images were on screen for such a short amount of time that it was hard to see the work, however this year (while being slightly longer) gives the viewers some time to take in what's in front of them. However upon re-watching, the animations for some of the images in which they turn around and fade off into the void are a little bit much. I think the occasional image turns a bit too quickly / dramatically so it looks more clearly edited, whereas others feel like more of a natural movement. I've also included more images in order to remove the repetition which I wasn't too happy with in the original video - however this is a returning problem at the end of the video, which I'll discuss later.

The title sequence is also very similar to last year, however I have made some changes to the video in the background. After looking through my relatively small comic book collection, I rediscovered a book that I was given by a friend about 3 / 4 years ago. I recalled its very unique art style, similar to the film Sin City, in which the panels are mostly black and white, however there are flairs of color to give emphasis to certain things within the image - and I found this really interesting, and wanted to find a way of implementing this into my intro. By decreasing the saturation to the point where the image was almost black and white, it left some of the more intense / brighter colors in full color, rather than gray-scale. I thought this worked really well, and resembled that striking aesthetic which was used in both Sin City and Shakara.

I decided to use BFG Division for the backing soundtrack, which complements this more bleak yet striking color scheme with its heavy drums and almost horror theme when the synths kick in. It goes really well with the titles as well, providing so much more impact when each name comes up. Whereas the previous intro was more of a casual intro, this one is far more "look at this, now". This leads into a nice final scene in which I reference the original intro, by playing the intro images again but extremely fast, in time with the drums. It works well as an impactful end, and gives some more hype to the artists who'll be coming on stage after it - whereas the previous version just kind of ended with a sudden whimper. The only problem I have with this being that it does return back to that issue of repetition.