Digital Media

The aim of this project was to explore the themes and other aspects of two films in a typographic linear animation. This piece is aimed at design students, designers and film enthusiasts. The two films in question are Damnation Alley (1977) from classic cinema and Tank Girl (1995) from modern cinema. Both of these films are set in post apocalyptic landscapes in which both a natural disaster or war has radically altered both the natural and man made worlds and civilisations The animation is a typographic depiction of the uniting and differing themes and tones of these two films.
The project is to communicate the over riding themes, such as genre, characterisation, emotions, atmosphere, location, tone etc. in a typographic manner. In these films the over riding and uniting themes are that of the post apocalyptic world and militaristic back drop and props. Both of the films were regarded as flops at the time of their release but later achieved forms of cult status amongst science fiction and comic fans. They are both supposedly based on comics or short stories to which they bear no resemblance. The piece would aim to portray the themes of a futuristic world in which civilisation and the natural world are completely transformed by disastrous events. Taking this theme, the iconography of the pieces and the type face chosen are to be an ironic statement towards these pieces of dialogue. The imagery chosen for this piece is that of road, warning and instructional signs. In the event of a worldwide disaster such as a nuclear war in which governments fall, law and its enforcement are among the first things to crumble. To this end, all which represent this become equally irrelevant. One such genre of items to become defunct is that of these signs. They represent a world and its values that were wiped off the planet by a meteor or another warring nation.
So here is the movie for Damnation Alley


and for Tank Girl