Tal Rosner is a bafta award winning film maker and designer.
After first studying for a BA in graphic design working mainly in composition based work for pieces like posters and magazines, he then went on to do a MA in London on a moving image course after having interest in rhythm and movement.
he started too look as he wanted to translate the graphic design he had been doing for posters and magazines into moving image, to translate the flow of how a newspaper reads into a similar flow in animation.
The second piece he showed was 2 different videos a for french pianist's who had seen his doppelganger video and wanted something similar to accompany there music for a DVD/CD, this soundtrack to this was extremely full on as there was two piece of music was played by 2 pianos at the same time and the idea of the piece was to have a split screen with 1 screen representing 1 of the pianos and to match the imagery up with the music of that piano so the two screens would be the same piece of video but edited completely differently, over the piece has evolved quite allot from doppelganger the basis of the piece has stayed the same, shot from a train and ranges from very obvious images to extremely abstract from editing, ways in which his editing has changed is that he started layering images so that they would build up whole new patters that would not be possible by only reflecting and rotating images, he also began inverting the images and playing with the colour and contrasts and this helps change the focal point of images.
In the second video he takes the editing even further by layering multiple images and then altering colours to make areas stand out and become more vibrant too certain parts
of the music, he also starts cutting into the actual clips and masking areas to create his own small animations in the actual videos them self after always relying on the natural animations of the scenery and just cutting the video too it, so he now has the ability too cut more closely to the music and have things perfectly in sync, these were much more interesting to watch but i felt that in same places the videos had too much going on and with the music that was extremely full on was quite overpowering but this also fits in with his talk about how his work has changed and in his next video it seems like his work has become less experimental and is much more of a developed style and had come up with techniques that feature in his work.
The piece that he won the bafta for was the opening titles for channel 4's show "skins" he was brought in for the skins job on the strength of his work for the piano pieces, the skins job was on a very low budget so actually worked out very well and the peice used his technique of layering multiple clips and using mirroring ad rotating along with cutting the pieces of video and showing them on a single screen similar to the split screen piano pieceone issue with brief was that he was given clips from the tv show of the actors to mix in with the video that he shot for the titles and working the peices together.
The title sequence for scrubs is one of the best around and i think his style works perfectly for showing all aspects of what the show is about, with his technique of layering images showing all aspects of life that the show covers and also his technique with so much going on had the chance to put in images that might not be allowed if they were prominent in the video, for example at a point in one corner there is a pill shown which is too highlight the topic of drugs that is in the show, the ending to each title sequence is different and prominently features a character from the show that the particular episode is about, but this was not the original idea at first he wanted every title sequence to be different but in a long running show this would be too much work so the idea had to be cut back and this shows the way a designers idea will have to change to meet a brief and work with a company, this is something he talked about in his lecture about how he prefers to work alone.
he talked about how after coming out of his courses he got what he thought was the ideal job working for a large company in London earning good money and working on large projects with huge budgets, but realized that he didn't like working where he didn't have control over a project and so he decided to go back to working for himself and this is something i think is very important when trying to figure out how you want to work because if he had not left the larger companies he might not have carried on his experimentation in work that lead to developing his own unique style.
he started too look as he wanted to translate the graphic design he had been doing for posters and magazines into moving image, to translate the flow of how a newspaper reads into a similar flow in animation.
His first film was doppelganger, he shot the film form the front off a train as it was an easy way to film allot off different areas without leaving one spot so he would have long continuous shots with changing scenery and also its something he could do by himself as he prefers to be able to work by himself, the film itself is edited to a music track working the imagery to match beats and changes in the music, the film starts off with simple edits using pauses and small rewinds and progressively gets more complex as the music does he starts to mirror the images and flip areas off the image so he now has 4 of the same video playing on one screen all in a different position giving an almost kaleidoscope he also linked parts off the scenery together by flipping around the 4 images so certain areas matched up for example a lamp post rotated in all 4 screens linking together to make a diamond shape and these are the more simple edits of the piece as areas can still be clearly made out as tracks,train or buildings.
As the video goes on the imagery gets more abstract beginning to look less like shapes and actual footage and more like patterns as the journey continuous because the buildings and surroundings changed and become more industrial from the simple trees and tracks from the start of the journey to factories and smoke towards the end which give a completely different look using the same editing technique he used before.
in his working method and also techniques as learning new methods and programs as he talked about how technology dependent his work is.
One thing i noticed about his work is the progression he talked about in his work over the years, the point of his lecture is that he wanted to show how he had changed over a period of four years
The second piece he showed was 2 different videos a for french pianist's who had seen his doppelganger video and wanted something similar to accompany there music for a DVD/CD, this soundtrack to this was extremely full on as there was two piece of music was played by 2 pianos at the same time and the idea of the piece was to have a split screen with 1 screen representing 1 of the pianos and to match the imagery up with the music of that piano so the two screens would be the same piece of video but edited completely differently, over the piece has evolved quite allot from doppelganger the basis of the piece has stayed the same, shot from a train and ranges from very obvious images to extremely abstract from editing, ways in which his editing has changed is that he started layering images so that they would build up whole new patters that would not be possible by only reflecting and rotating images, he also began inverting the images and playing with the colour and contrasts and this helps change the focal point of images.
In the second video he takes the editing even further by layering multiple images and then altering colours to make areas stand out and become more vibrant too certain partsof the music, he also starts cutting into the actual clips and masking areas to create his own small animations in the actual videos them self after always relying on the natural animations of the scenery and just cutting the video too it, so he now has the ability too cut more closely to the music and have things perfectly in sync, these were much more interesting to watch but i felt that in same places the videos had too much going on and with the music that was extremely full on was quite overpowering but this also fits in with his talk about how his work has changed and in his next video it seems like his work has become less experimental and is much more of a developed style and had come up with techniques that feature in his work.
The piece that he won the bafta for was the opening titles for channel 4's show "skins" he was brought in for the skins job on the strength of his work for the piano pieces, the skins job was on a very low budget so actually worked out very well and the peice used his technique of layering multiple clips and using mirroring ad rotating along with cutting the pieces of video and showing them on a single screen similar to the split screen piano pieceone issue with brief was that he was given clips from the tv show of the actors to mix in with the video that he shot for the titles and working the peices together.
The title sequence for scrubs is one of the best around and i think his style works perfectly for showing all aspects of what the show is about, with his technique of layering images showing all aspects of life that the show covers and also his technique with so much going on had the chance to put in images that might not be allowed if they were prominent in the video, for example at a point in one corner there is a pill shown which is too highlight the topic of drugs that is in the show, the ending to each title sequence is different and prominently features a character from the show that the particular episode is about, but this was not the original idea at first he wanted every title sequence to be different but in a long running show this would be too much work so the idea had to be cut back and this shows the way a designers idea will have to change to meet a brief and work with a company, this is something he talked about in his lecture about how he prefers to work alone.he talked about how after coming out of his courses he got what he thought was the ideal job working for a large company in London earning good money and working on large projects with huge budgets, but realized that he didn't like working where he didn't have control over a project and so he decided to go back to working for himself and this is something i think is very important when trying to figure out how you want to work because if he had not left the larger companies he might not have carried on his experimentation in work that lead to developing his own unique style.
