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1. FMP Contextual research
Daniel Firth

2. Graphic designer 1
• David Carson: is an American graphic designer who is best known for
his magazine and use of experimental typography. He was the art
director for the ray gun magazine where he used much of the
typographic and layout approach for which he is known. most of his
artwork is text based or has major text aspects. Many pieces of his
artwork use blank backgrounds and bright intricate main point in the
centre of the page with the typography interrogated into the image.

3. How I can utilise their style
• I will take inspiration from this graphic designers work as I really like
how seemingly simplistic yet complex the designs are and how the
text and imagery work together. Another aspect of this artists work
that I can use is the seemingly simplistic designs that are actually very
detailed, I will attempt to replicate this in my own project.

4. Graphic designer 2
• Saul Bass: is an American graphic designer who’s also an Oscar
winning film maker who is best known for his design of motion-
picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. He won
the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Lion of
San Marco for Best Film about Adolescence.

5. How I can utilise their style
• I will take inspiration from this graphic designers work as I really like
how seemingly simplistic yet complex the designs are and how the
text and imagery work together. Another aspect of this artists work I
can use is the single main point of the poster that doesn't make the
design too cluttered and appealing to onlookers.

6. Graphic designer 3
• Paula Scher: is Described as the “master conjurer of the instantly familiar,” Scher straddles the line between
pop culture and fine art in her work. Iconic, smart, and accessible, her images have entered into the
American vernacular. In 1998 she was named to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, and in 2000 she
received the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. She has served on the national board of the American
Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and was president of its New York Chapter from 1998 to 2000. In 2001 she
was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of her distinguished
achievements and contributions to the field, and in 2006 she was awarded the Type Directors Club
Medal, the first woman to receive the prize. In 2012 she was honored with the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s
Design Collab Award, in 2013 she received the National Design Award for Communication Design, presented
by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and in 2019 she was named a SEGD Fellow. Scher has
been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 1993 and served as its president from
2009 to 2012.

7. How I can utilise their style
• I can use influence from some of their style with the use of
typography in my posters as her use of placement and styles makes
her work eye catching and good for captivating audiences. I can also
take inspiration from this artists use of different sizes of font and
placements.

8. Film maker 1
• Kirby Dick: Kirby Dick is a two time Emmy-award winning and two-time Academy award-nominated documentary film director. His second
most recent film, The Invisible War (2012), a ground-breaking investigation into the epidemic of rape within the US military, won two Emmy
Awards for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, the 2012 Independent Spirit Award 2012 for Best Documentary, a
Peabody Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Other films include The Hunting Ground (2015), a monumental exposé about
sexual assault on college campuses, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, was released by Radius/The Weinstein Company and CNN,
is the 2016 recipient of the Producer Guild of America's Stanley Kramer award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original
Song, Outrage (2009), was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), a
breakthrough investigation of the MPAA's secretive film ratings system, and Derrida (2002), a complex portrait of the world-renowned French
philosopher Jacques Derrida, He also directed Twist of Faith (2004), the story of a man confronting the trauma of his past sexual abuse by a
Catholic priest, which was also nominated for an Academy Award . He is the 2012 recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and
Filmmaking and the 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize. (fact and text taken from IMDB, but re-arranged).
• Dick uses the cinéma verité style, Verite films tend to have these specific qualifications:
• Filmed on location with non-professional actors
• Featuring handheld shots
• Focusing on everyday situations and lives of characters
• Unscripted action and dialogue
• Focusing on social and political issues
• Always using natural lighting
• Often featuring some overlap between filmmaker and subject

9. How I can utilise their style
Dick uses the cinéma verité style, Verite films tend to have these specific qualifications:
• Filmed on location with non-professional actors
• Featuring handheld shots
• Focusing on everyday situations and lives of characters
• Unscripted action and dialogue
• Focusing on social and political issues
• Always using natural lighting
• Often featuring some overlap between filmmaker and subject
I can use aspects of this style on my project as I will be focusing on the life of my subject and focus on
social/political details in my film too.

10. Film maker 2
• Sebastian Junger: Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM, FIRE, A DEATH IN BELMONT, WAR and TRIBE. As an
award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around
the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a
feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
"Restrepo," which chronicled the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, is widely considered to have broken new ground in war
reporting. Junger has since produced and directed three additional documentaries about war and its aftermath. "Which Way Is The Front Line From Here?",
chronicles the life and career of his friend and colleague, photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed while covering the civil war in Libya in
2011. "Korengal" returns to the subject of combat and tries to answer the eternal question of why young men miss war. "The Last Patrol", examines the
complexities of returning from war by following Junger and three friends--all of whom had experienced combat, either as soldiers or reporters. (from Sebastian
Jungers website)
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11. Film maker 3
• George Lucas: As a film student, he made several short films including Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967)
which won first prize at the 1967-68 National Student Film Festival. In 1967, he was awarded a scholarship by Warner
Brothers to observe the making of Finian's Rainbow (1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas and
Coppola became good friends and formed American Zoetrope in 1969. The company's first project was Lucas' full-length
version of THX 1138 (1971). In 1971, Coppola went into production for The Godfather (1972), and Lucas formed his own
company, Lucasfilm Ltd. From 1973 to 1974, he began writing the screenplay which became Star Wars: Episode IV - A New
Hope (1977). He was inspired to make this movie from Flash Gordon and the Planet of the Apes films. In 1975, he
established ILM. (Industrial Light & Magic) to produce the visual effects needed for the movie. Another company called
Sprocket Systems was established to edit and mix Star Wars and later becomes known as Skywalker Sound. His movie was
turned down by several studios until 20th Century Fox gave him a chance. Lucas agreed to forego his directing salary in
exchange for 40% of the film's box-office take and all merchandising rights. The movie went on to break all box office
records and earned seven Academy Awards. It redefined the term "blockbuster" and the rest is history.
Lucas made the other Star Wars films and along with Steven Spielberg created the Indiana Jones series which made box
office records of their own. From 1980 to 1985, Lucas was busy with the construction of Skywalker Ranch, built to
accommodate the creative, technical, and administrative needs of Lucasfilm. Lucas also revolutionized movie theaters with
the THX system which was created to maintain the highest quality standards in motion picture viewing.

12. graphic design theory.
• Graphic design- including (but not limited too) contrast ,hierarchy
,repetition ,alignment , and colour- are in fact theories proven
through a long history of successful experimentation in practice.
Indeed, graphic designers-though professional practice- have tested
and retested to the point where it makes sense to refer to these
theories as laws or principals.

13. Film theory
• Film theory is best thought of as substantive field of inquiry in which
are clustered a number of discrete theories of cinema. There is no
one single, monolithic ‘film theory’ that film scholars unanimously
endorse. (from the book ‘what is film theory’)
• According to The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Film Theory: Film
Theory is“…a set of scholarly approaches within the academic
discipline of cinema studies that question the essentialism of cinema
and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's
relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society
at large."

14. bibliography
1:graphic design
• David Carson (1955) Wikipedia
2: graphic design
Saul Bass (1920) Wikipedia
3: Graphic design
Paula scher (1948) https://www.pentagram.com/about/paula-scher
4:film
Kirby Dick (1952) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225269/
5:film
Sebastian Junger (1962) http://www.sebastianjunger.com/

15. Bibliography continued
6: film
George Lucas (1944) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
7:graphic design theory
‘Design studies: Theory and research in graphic design’,
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Design_Studies/Zu00m04mba4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=graphic+design+theory+readings+from+the+field&printsec=frontcover
8:film theory
‘what is film theory’ ,
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Design_Studies/Zu00m04mba4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=graphic+design+theory+readings+from+the+field&printsec=frontcover