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Completed 2023
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An overly ambitious detective drastically misreads the murder crime scene of an old botanist who spent his life trying to classify the tomato as a fruit or vegetable…
The graphics cards within a trailer are an opportunity to expand on the world of the story and truly immerse audiences. In the case of Bananacide’s trailer, I was keen to use the various graphics cards to root the film into the crime genre, whilst also alluding to the greater mystery elements within the full film…
From researching references to preparing banana-prints, I spent a lot of time tweaking and adjusting these graphics to make sure they were just right.
Crime films are familiar to audiences the world over, full of tropes that we’ve now come to immediately associate with the genre. I therefore felt it important to gently ground the graphics in this genre to offer audiences an entry way into Bananacide, whilst still presenting the visuals in a fresh new banana-twisted way.
Se7en’s opening title sequence is perhaps one of the most iconic title sequences out there (narrowly beaten only by the James Bonds!) Its grimy aesthetic and erratic, glitchy text helps get audiences feeling uneasy before the film has even started – and these were all elements that I expanded upon in Bananacide’s own title cards.
I had to create banana-prints for the film; they’re present in Brunswick’s Banana Specimen File, and they play a crucial role in helping Detective Warburg to piece together the crime scene.
They weren’t too difficult to make; just as you would acquire the fingerprint profiles of a real-life criminal, I pressed the silicon prop banana onto an ink pad and then firmly transferred the ink onto some card – a quick scan later and I had a digital version of the prints.
In the case of the trailer, I manipulated them slightly to get them to glisten and look all the more menacing.
I was keen to impart the semblance of photorealism into these animated visuals; to help them blend in with the live action footage but also to give them real texture and weight. Showing the imperfections of the artificial camera was key to achieving this – making use of a shallow depth of field, smudged lens, and chromatic aberration to help sell the idea of photorealism and push these visuals further into that grungy Se7en aesthetic.
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