Cinema Eye nominees Unforeseen for graphics award
So, to our surprise, the film was honored with a nomination for graphics…
Specifically, The Unforeseen was nominated for an “Outstanding Achievement in Graphics and Animation.” Though the list of nominees just had me down as “Motion Design” I wrote them explaining that Kyle Cooper/Prologue created the opening and closing titles to the film. Though these are credited separately, Laura and I both consider them parts of the body of the film. And we’re not alone… Other’s have made this exact point, like these comments from Tomorrow Unlimited’s Sublime Annihilation writeup:
Dunn’s The Unforeseen also intercuts between people’s impassioned personal views and helicopter shots that cover miles and miles of green pastures and highway behemoths, which offer the wider view. This macro/micro dialectic is perhaps best embodied by opening title and end sequences designed by Prologue Films’ motion graphics ace Kyle Cooper (Seven, Spider-Man), which recall Charles and Ray Eames’ classic Powers of Ten film, zooming from continental masses to outer space and then back to trees on the ground. Just as Burtynsky’s long shots of mounds of detritus, discarded computer parts, coal mine wastelands, and Bangladeshi shipyards portray humans as trivial adornments, dwarfed by the landscapes they’ve created, The Unforeseen attempts to excavate the relationship between people and the vast systems they inhabit.
You can see these elements (sans sound design/narration) at Prologue’s recently updated website.
So it’s my hope that The Unforeseen’s nomination will be expanded to include Cooper and Prologue. I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be the case.
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