Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema
Typography and cinema
A course by José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl , Graphic designer and Art Director
Joined October 2016
Joined October 2016
About the video: Typography and cinema
Overview
“Now, let's see the importance of using typography in the cinema as a generator of graphic language and as a container of information. I'll tell you about its function and form in the context of a film production.”
In this video lesson José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl addresses the topic: Typography and cinema, which is part of the Domestika online course: Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema. Learn the theoretical bases and a methodology to design impressive initial titles.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will see typography and cinema. The great importance of typography in cinema it has to do not only with displaying information content that should show in a sequence, that is, it has to not only show names or companies who participate in the production of a movie. It also has to do with the way we express ourselves, from this reading that we must necessarily make of the texts, how language is generated and how it is able to integrate to all the graphic context that is not only in the movie, but in the sequence itself. It's not just about making visible the participation of...”
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Course summary for: Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema
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Calligraphy & Typography -
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Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animation, Art Direction, Film, Video & TV, Typography
José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl
A course by José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl
José Luis Cóyotl is a Graphic Designer from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. He has worked in design studios Prologue Films , with Kyle Cooper, in Los Angeles, California and in Hula + Hula and La Fe Ciega , in Mexico City.
He has devoted a large part of his professional life to teaching, as a design professor in different universities. Currently, he works independently as a designer and art director, mainly developing projects in Mexico and the United States.
He has been designing for print media, such as books and magazines, for more than 18 years; branding, motion design, illustration and design of typographic fonts, as well as custom type. He has also given conferences and workshops in Mexico and South America.
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