On to Project Two

This next project yields some fun possibilities. Despite the fact that I don't know how to use After Effects, I'm still really looking forward to doing this project. I've chosen the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, and if you haven't seen it you should, because it's fantastic. Anyways the premise of the movie is that a small town girl moved to New York searching to renew herself, but what she finds is that no matter where she goes she isn't happy, and the only that can make her happy is to let someone love her. Audrey Hepburn's character Holly Golightly is hysterical in her eccentricity. It's definitely a good movie. Anyways...here are the notes that I took of the movie.



Holly Golighty: the main character

• She’s obsessed with Tiffany’s
• Keeps her phone in a suitcase
• Tiffany’s calms her and seems like a safe place for her
• Talkative
• Very personable
• She might be a prostitute…maybe…at least an escort
• Keeps track of who rich men are
• Delivers messages for a mob boss
• Moon River is a song that goes throughout the movie
• Was married to a much older man at 13, her brother is in the army, ran away from home with her brother
• Calls her neighbor Paul, Fred, because he reminds her of her brother
• Paul loves her but she’s only interested in marrying rich
  

Mood

• High culture, classic shapes and movement
• Art nouveau

Color palette: blues, greens, soft tones

Fonts: serifs, or curvilinear fonts

Conversation is quick, witty, maybe the imagery should be quick, music should be an upbeat sound with a lot of change and a lot of action

Very sixties, drinking but classy dress, high life
Almost Gatsby like

Moon River Lyrics from the movie

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

Important Information
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn
George Peppard
Mickey Rooney
Patricia Neal
Director: Blake Edwards
Book by: Truman Capote
Screenplay: George Axelrod

Imagery

I'm thinking that the imagery and movement of Art Nouveau would be a good look for the movie title sequence.


As far as fonts go for this movie I was looking at a number of different ones.

Each one of these fonts seems to reflect the mood of the movie for me. They are thin fonts, small serifs or no serifs. Each in itself is somewhat whimsical, as if the letters move on their own but are still forced to sit within the realms of what their shape dictates. I also think that each have qualities of the Art Nouveau movement. Especially the fonts Amerika Sans and Aubrey. I like Aubrey the most I think, because of its large letter forms and its changing line quality. I think I will use this one for the title and use the other fonts as supporting forms.

Abadi MT Condensed Light
Ambrosia Demo Regular
Amerika Sans Regular
Aubrey Regular
Big Caslon Medium
Century Regular
Footlight MT Light
Mammagamma

That is my list for fonts. I tried to put them on the blog in the form of a jpeg but it's not working very well so I will have to put them up another time.