Resubmission - concept

Resubmission work for OUGD201 - Design for Print. 

It was identified that the reason that I did not pass this module was due to my lack of investigation into print processes, which of course meant that there was no evidence for my understanding of these. 

For this module I spent a lot of (too much) time creating a typeface, which should have been the material I could use to investigate print processes. I named the typeface 'Midnight Maths', and would perhaps best be suited to infographics/signage/transport systems and the like. 

So essentially what I was doing, or should have been doing, was designing some sort of promotional material + packaging, which could then be sent to or bought by those potentially interested in that sort of thing. 

Therefore, it seems necessary to investigate print processes that would be suitable for this, on a variety of media such as posters, sample cards, and of course the booklet that I have already created, which displays the typeface, shown below:

silent movie snapshots

Title Sequence + Idents

Title Sequence - Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

IDENT 1 from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

IDENT 2 from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

IDENT 3 from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

IDENT 4 from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Silent Movie - Final Videos

Final videos for the 'Silent Movie' Brief. Basically getting to grips with basic AfterEffects skills.

Bouncing C - Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Sliding C Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Toppling C Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Spinning Letters Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Rotating C Final from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

60 seconds

60 seconds + audio from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.




Completed a semi-first draft type thing for my title sequence. At the beginning of this brief, I was quite worried about how I would manage to fill 60 seconds worth of video, but after getting started it was not too bad. 60 seconds still feels a bit long for a title sequence..particularly on TV where most adverts/sequences only seem to last half that time.

Without proper feedback I am unable to tell how close to completion this is, although I have already identified a number of issues that could do with addressing:

- In the initial 10/15 seconds the colours of the CMI screen compared to the logo do not match; although this will be fairly easy to sort by fixing up the original AI files.

- The audio does not match at certain points - despite my best efforts to arrange everything to fit in time with the chosen track, the track is in fact ever so slightly slower than what it needs to be. This is a result of me creating the title sequence in the wrong order; realistically I should have laid the track down first before animation, so I could have animated it directly in time, but this will be a lesson learnt for next time. To be fair I can easily solve this situation by opening up the track in Ableton and speeding it up ever so slightly.

- Wrong section of audio track used - Although the section of track used is approximately 60 seconds in length; it sounds a bit flat as there are only trebles and mids at that point in the track....so once again if I open it up in Ableton and cut and paste a few parts of the track together I should be able to get a nice range and deep sound.

Other than that, it seems pretty sweet. I've been thinking about quickly getting some circuit board imagery and allowing that to drift through the background, almost as a texture, just for a bit of extra interest as the background currently looks fairly flat and boring. Should hopefully only be a half hour job, if I've got the time.

50 seconds

title sequence - 50 seconds from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

50 seconds of my title sequence so far. A fair amount of it is still pretty rough at times, and I have not yet laid the audio over properly, as I need to warp it a little bit to make it fit properly.

Title sequence progress

I've started to reach around about 30 seconds of my title sequence. The first ten seconds were fairly heavy in terms of the number of layers used, and at my skill level became quite a lengthy task to achieve. Luckily the following sections of the sequence are a little bit more basic, which will allow me more time to refine them and get them spot on. Here is a semi-rough draft of the first 30 seconds:

1st 30 seconds ish from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.

Unfortunately the logo, being a psd file, is affected quite badly when scaled up, so I got hold of an eps file which sorted that problem out nice:

title sequence improvement from Mike Mooney on Vimeo.