For the Amsterdam edition of the design and technology event FITC 2012, Dutch motion designers Floris Vos of Soulbase and Menno Fokma harnessed the storytelling potential of the opening title sequence to maximum effect. The designers created a short narrative to remind the viewer how tough it can be to create something, and how ultimately … Continued
French Fridays updates with Topkapi. Stylish, glamorous and tongue-in-cheek, Topkapi is the epitome of the European crime caper and more or less established the genre of the heist film. The object of desire is the famous dagger inlaid with emeralds from the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Title designer Jean Fouchet used colored acetate overlays coeated … Continued
Motion designers are imagining the 3-D interfaces of the future. For Iron Man 2, Prologue envisioned the stunning, holographic, 3-D interfaces that Tony Stark uses to engineer his technological devices. And who doesn’t recall the intuitive, spatial interface that Tom Cruise’s character works with in one of the defining scenes of Minority Report. And now … Continued
The pastel-minded creatures dressed in water-washed colors that feature in this music video by Rayons must hail from some alternate universe that possibly exists somewhere halfway between the center of Jason and Aya Brown‘s ancient, reptilian brains and the end of our visible, known universe. By repeatedly “letting their thought waves overlap and mingle,” the … Continued
The quality of the title designs nominated for the SXSW Film Title Design Award this year is high. Twenty nominees were announced yesterday. Two more than last year. It’s going to be tough to pick a winner with so much talent represented. We noticed some new “faces” among several familiar ones among the nominees. For … Continued
You could be forgiven thinking that Kyle Cooper and David Fincher collaborated on the titles to The Dark Knight Rises – the new Batman movie that isn’t out till summer 2012. This unofficial title sequence was created as part of a class assignment by a student of Communication Design from Istanbul, Turkey. His name is … Continued
Not so original, according to some. Been done before, according to others. But we don’t care, because we can watch this video for hours on end on repeat without eeeeeever getting bored. It’s pure alchemy. Like staring into the Primordial Soup. Watch P.O.P. on 2Pause! This magical music video art piece-de-resistance was done by Israeli … Continued
We don’t get this very often – a music video that doubles as an activist visual essay that first and foremost makes you think. Frequent visitors of 2Pause already know that that a music video can be so much more than merely a promotional vehicle to boost record sales. In our humble opinion, The music … Continued
The music video for “Alone and Desired” by Dutch band The Yes Please was recorded in the amazing Sonneveld Museum House in Rotterdam. This “urban villa” from the early 1930’s is “one of the best-preserved avant-garde homes in Europe,” according the Netherlands Architecture Institute NAI, who manages the house. The Yes Please singer and assistent … Continued
2Pause proudly presents Mirka van Duijn & Nina Spiering‘s brand-new music video for singer-songwriter Blaudzun’s track Elephants. The video, which was produced by sister co. Yellow Submarine, is an immaculately-styled mini movie that portrays the life and times of an unstoppable womanizer. The story is set against the backdrop of the city of love, Paris … Continued
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