Final Concept

Hello Everybody,

After investigating Frida Kahlo's life and paintings for 5 weeks, I started feeling like "I want to be her!!!!!!!"
(without the mustache part of course :))))

So at the end of our class here's a little overlook of the movie I chose and the conceptual solution of the opening titles I am redesigning:

Frida Kahlo is known for her surreal style and unique method of self-portrait paintings in art history. The movie traces Kahlo's story, from the debilitating trolley accident she suffered as a teen and her stormy relationship with muralist husband Diego Rivera to the duo's many extramarital flings and Kahlo's search for her own identity in her art. It explains the stories behind her paintings and the movie does a good job by covering them in a unique way that is not too far from Frida Kahlo's style. Puppet and 3D Animations, and collage style motion graphics integrates with her paintings in various scenes.

In most of these scenes reproductions of Frida Kahlo paintings are used with changed portraits of Frida to Salma Hayek, actress starred as Frida. This works together with the movie as a whole piece and story telling element, but looking from a broader picture since the movie is all about Frida Kahlo and her paintings, apparently we end up not seeing any examples of her original paintings.

Because of this reason for the redesign of the opening titles I decided to use Kahlo's self-portraits. This would give a chance to the viewer to experience Frida's original art and it would create the mood of the movie before the story starts. Since all of her paintings are strongly expressive by their own, I mostly used simple cuts and transitions between the paintings in my animatic. I traced some objects out of her paintings and used them as active elements to create visual flow and consistency in motion and transition. Kahlo used her handwriting in lots of her paintings and I found it appropriate to trace the letters out from her various paintings and create the titles out of her own script. I didn't use the same song of the original opening but edited the length of a song from the award winning soundtrack of the movie.

I'm still working on the animatic and wish to bring something as close as possible of the picture in my head for next class. I hope everybody else is doing great with their titles and I'm curriosly waiting for wednesday to see the results.