"Rwanda"

Subject: Canadian General, who had never seen an action, this was the command of a lifetime in UN peace keeping mission in the heart of Africa. It seemed it was a simple job, he would enforce a peace agreement between Rwanda's government and Kigali and the rebel army positioned behind the seas fire line. The rebels were mostly Tutsi, ethnic minority, that had been persecuted for decades. Unfortunately the General failed the mission...

Design Process: Since it's a commander's confession and it's very sensitive and personal, I chose the
the typewriter version font, which has a diary feel. The distress of this typeface represents the war, commander's misery and failure. The audience can't really sense yet, that it was a failure, so at the beginning of the animation the imagery is more calm and abstract. While later when his words start revealing what is really happening the imagery changes to the red pulsing spots, which are the photographs of the red paint. Essential words such as "me", "spirit", "killed" were chosen to be uppercase, in order to make it more effective. The sensitivity of the subject didn't allow too much of the experimentation of the direction and movement of the words. Most of them are revealed in a way typewriter works(from left to right) and only "big" words such as "killed" and "war" has more personality.
From the beginning of the project the thoughts were changing. The first version was to make the words running in a small red streams, crossing over, overlapping and forming a bigger stream towards the end.
Another version was to play with a commander's shadow and while he is talking, make the words slowly to fill it up. That would express his inner state, the heaviness, which he always has to carry in his heart and be remainded till the end of his life.





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