Portishead Strangers
When trying to think up how best to describe this Typography video for Portishead’s “Strangers “, I kept thinking of a sixties feel to it “Two Tone”.
The periodic sounds of the winding instruments gives strangers a step back in to the unknown. Key compositions layered with single note guitar and organ lines that explode with bass lines your mother would bang on the ceiling at. The dark mysterious sounds that Portishead produce are time less classics and are still been used in crime drama trailers and popular adverts even after 15 years since their debut Album “Dummy” in 1994. The feel for the music is like a 1940s film noir crime drama with the detective and his tilted hat smoking a cigarette looking for the criminal in a dark ally.
When trying to think up how best to describe this Typography video for Portishead’s “Strangers “, I kept thinking of a sixties feel to it “Two Tone”.
The periodic sounds of the winding instruments gives strangers a step back in to the unknown. Key compositions layered with single note guitar and organ lines that explode with bass lines your mother would bang on the ceiling at. The dark mysterious sounds that Portishead produce are time less classics and are still been used in crime drama trailers and popular adverts even after 15 years since their debut Album “Dummy” in 1994. The feel for the music is like a 1940s film noir crime drama with the detective and his tilted hat smoking a cigarette looking for the criminal in a dark ally.
Lyrics to Strangers
Ohh...Can anybody see the light
Where the morn meets the dew and the tide risesDid you realise no one can see inside your view
did you realise for why this sight belongs to you
Ohh...Just set aside your fears of life
With this sole desire
Done it warning
Done in now
This ain't real
On in this side
Done it warning
Done in now
This ain't real
On in this side
The lyrics in grey total 2minutes exactly. The last chorus of the two was a duplication of the first one; I consider making a different style but decided to keep it as uniformal where possible.
Research I under took was find inspiration from Bauhaus posters, Art Deco and the Sixties revolution.
Font style I used was Portishead font from dafont web site, in keeping with the Portishead theme.
Reasurch
Bauhaus posters 1919-1933
I noticed that the straight edges and symmetrical layout with minimum colours added a direct effect in gaining ones attention.
Art Deco 1925-1940s
The difference from the Bauhaus even though these to periods over lapped there is a more structured elegance with art deco; more curves colours and a sense of sophistication.
Sixties Revolution 1960-1969
The Swinging Sixties was a colourful time with freedom and revolution in mind, Freedom of speech and marches over the wrong colour on a bottle top would be the norm with away of expression in art, music and sport. It was all happening in the Sixties and the changes made for the better in society today can be seen,
Reflective Analysis
My final project is not far from what I originally intended, with the typography with in the song I new I had to fill in the gaps where they where no lyrics. The idea was to have the lyrics in time with the beat or horns and to be present in none lyrical parts to be effective when possible. I intended to keep with a two tone colour to match the theme Portishead portray on album covers and moods in videos, they are not a doom and gloom band as they are well known music producers in there own right and there style of music / trip hop is like no other. Reason I chose this song was to express my design in typography to a classic beat thumping tune that will keep in the mind as a good piece. I do feel I achieved my goal; however I do believe I could have added a lot more of an effect to the beat throughout the video when typography was not on show.
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