RAGE AGAINST

Creative Process

'Rage Against' is an intonation typography assignment. The challenge was to find a piece of audio from any form of media entertainment in movies, stand-up comedy or songs, and create a typographical animation using its intonations. Based on the film 'Interstellar', I extracted Dr. Amelia Brand's concept of love in her explanation:

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So listen to me... when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s observable. Powerful. It has to mean something. Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

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From her words, we can tell that she explains that love is something beyond human understanding. This explains that she isn't describing love as quantifiable thing but a feeling that transcends the dimensions of time and space. It isn't that simple to measure love in terms of quantity. She later explains that love makes her think that she has a slight chance of meeting the love of her life again who she hasn't seen or heard from over a decade. 

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I did an audio mixdown of this extraction with Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle Into The Good Night' in 1951 that is narrated by Anthony Hopkins. (It was narrated by Michael Caine in 'Interstellar'.) He wrote this poem for his dying father. The poem asserts that old men at the ends of their lives should resist death as strongly as they can. In fact, they should only leave this world kicking and screaming, furious that they have to die at all. It is an allegory asking the astronauts to strive harder in the face of desperation or destruction. To put up the best fight against all the odds. Although the end is inevitable, do what it takes to delay it.

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Contrasting lines of both pieces, it brings out the sense of desperation for love. 

Below is my moodboard that I'd curated from gathering the typography style, colour palette and motion graphics references that I had in mind.