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Kyle Cooper

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I know that everyone has seen Kyle Cooper’s work it just may not be so obvious. He does opening sequences to movies in very conceptual ways. One of his most famous openings was Seven some others are Dawn of the Dead, Incredible Hulk and Spiderman. I will have some YouTube links you should look for his opening movie sequences. He has been influenced by Saul Bass, a famous designer you might have seen his openings on Vertigo or North by Northeast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIlqatMQS… or Anatomy of a Murder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtRcd-BX… . It was said that they way he made the opening sequence to Seven sets the tone and showed how the murder’s mind works metaphorically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoP… There is something known as the Cooper effect that the opening title sequences are so good the movie fails in comparison. Not that Seven was one of them because this opening revolutionized movies but one the one I’m referring to was Flubber.
All the prints in his life he wanted to give motion to he saw them as freeze frames. He started Imaginary Forces a motion graphic company in California. He thought movies were behind typographically, he set out to change that. Conceptual design or art is the idea or subject is important which gives the viewer the meaning. Imaginary Forces philosophy was as long as it’s a solid idea and solving the problem successfully, no matter what the business or platform they would take it on.  He reads the script and thinks about the idea and looks around for images that he can use. His company does a lot of research about their projects in movies; they my get a ruff cut or script and work closely with the director for the openings.
Kyle has moved on from Design Force choosing a smaller setting in Prologue having no more then 8 people on his team and only choosing to do limited movies. His ideas seem to be moving away from computer graphics, which is the trend now. It was all hand done work before the computer and now it’s coming back with more humanistic qualities. What it seems to be now is images done by hand and the computer is only there to help those images come to life with using programs like adobe flash and after effects. Kyle Cooper try’s to limit the computer with the title sequence of Seven, he cut the text directly onto the film frame by frame.
We were talking today about conceptual design in graphic design history. We are communicators and have to display our work conceptually. The Swiss International style has changed us for the better. They were the ones that moved Graphic design from designers to communicators.
His quote, he says artist process there issues through there work says there is a release of whatever you have to get rid of, once its accomplished He is solving his along with the movies issues. He is a visual artist just like we all are, no matter with photography, graphic design, or printmaking we express our selves through our work wither
Just take a look on the opening to catch me if you can and look at the classic 60s movie beginning.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVEgK3nCk…
What better way to move toward the future as designers and photographers then to put motion and sequence to your work.

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