Saul Bass Essays

  • Saul Bass, The Screenwriter of Design

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    students of design. One of the students was Saul Bass (1920 - 1996). Born in New York, Bass developed an interest in design and illustrations. Studying at the Arts Student League and under Gyorgy Kepes of Brooklyn College, Bass mastered the theory of Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus Design. Though he started his work in New York it was later in Los Angeles where his career flourished. In California he was recognized by the Director Otto Preminger who hired Bass to design the poster for his movie called

  • Saul Bass Art Style

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    artistic style of Saul Bass Introduction “When I began to do titles many, many years ago – the dark ages, when designers lived in caves – I went through a very intense learning experience with some extraordinary film makers,” Saul Bass – 1996 As a graphic designer, I like to look at other designers work and analyze their style. It helps me in my own work to see what others are doing and how they’re doing it. One designer who has really influenced me and whose work I love is Saul Bass. He was a master

  • Saul Bass: The Visual Style Of Saul Bass

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    Saul Bass In this essay, I will be discussing Saul Bass and a couple of his notable title sequences. I will also outline his milestones and discuss his visual style. Saul Bass was born May 8, 1920 and died April 25, 1996. He was an American graphic designer and filmmaker who was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended James Monroe High School and studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York. Saul Bass was well-known for his design of title sequences, film posters

  • Saul Bass Essay

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    century, every title of films has been designed very seriously. These titles reflect the main elements or impression of the story in a dynamic form. Tracing the source, the well-designed movie titles are derived from an American designer, Saul Bass. Saul Bass is a graphic designer who graduated from Brooklyn College and studied under Gyorgy Kepes, a master of the functional Bauhaus aesthetic (Bigman, 2015). In his whole career, he had done a lot of other things, including logos, advertisements,

  • Saul Bass Essay

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    Eschewing the “big head” theory of advertising displayed in the mid-50’s, Saul bass broke tradition with his savage, jagged-print objects and use of broken type. Saul Bass was an American graphic designer who for over more than 40+ years worked on a number of projects ranging from print and identity development to movie title sequences. Bas redefined film’s visual language and in the process liberated generations of designers. Bass began to revolutionize graphics design in the 1940s. His first major break

  • Saul Bass Research Paper

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    Saul Bass and Steven Chorney are just two of the designers that tremendously influenced one of the most exciting forms of advertising and design. Both of these designers are well known for contributing unique designs to the film industry. They supplied their artistic talent by creating movie posters and title sequences, which are important because they set expectations and make an audience excited for motion pictures. Often people say the phrase “never judge a book by its cover”, but in the film

  • Saul Bass Research Paper

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    A famous graphic designer named Saul Bass, he was born by Eastern European Jewish Immigrants parents in New York City in May 8, 1920 and died in Los Angeles, California on April 25, 1996 at age of 75. He died of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. His wife named Elaine Makatura also was very creative. They was married for 35 years. They had two children named Jennifer and Jeffrey. When he was born and grew up in the big city of New York City also he developed a sense that show life in a world class metropolis

  • Hitchcock's Cinematic Style Of Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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    Sir Alfred Hitchcock is recognised as one of the most pioneering and renowned directors in the history of cinema (Hockensmith A, 2012). His cinematic style that favours the use of suspense over surprise has become iconic and influential in modern film. Hitchcock’s early days as an assistant director at the UFA Babelsberg Studios in Berlin (German Expressionism, 2007), had a lasting impact on some of his later works produced in Hollywood. During Hitchcock’s time in Germany he became fascinated with

  • How Hitchcock Challenges Audience Expectations in his Film Psycho

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    How Hitchcock Challenges Audience Expectations in his Film Psycho Hitchcock does very well in his film with censorship of film making in the nineteen fifties as he goes right to the limits of were the film is just suitable to show the nation. He does this many times in his film, one example is where Marian gets undressed and dressed. You see her bra and knickers in this scene, which is very unusual back then, it is worse than seeing nudity in films now. If Marian had taken any think else

  • Analysis Of Movie Posters

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    Media Analysis Essay Introduction In this essay I will analysis three movie posters and their remakes. The three movie posters I will analyse are Psycho, The secret life of Walter Mitty and Thunderball. I will analyse these posters using the methods I have learned in Media Analysis such as Feminism, Male gaze and Audience theory, along with techniques such as camera angles, lighting and so on. Using these concepts I will analyse these posters and their remakes and see what the changes, if any, were

  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

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    An Analysis of the Opening Sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho Just like a building, a film needs a strong foundation in order to be successful, a foundation which is made up of the starting moments of the film. In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock successfully uses the opening credit sequence to establish a foundation on which to build an interesting plot, including techniques to elicit involvement by the spectator, and the suggestion of a "Psycho" theme. A musical composition consisting of quick

  • The Role Of Leadership In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

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    Leadership is something that has been around since civilization. You would think that an idea so old would be straight forward but, we can see completely different ideas of what a leader, good or bad, should look like. While some of these stories may be fictional, they line up with a historical timeline of expectations. We can also see how the role of a king and how their duties have evolved in real life. The Epic of Gilgamesh shows us how to control your power. In 1 & 2 Samuel, we see what

  • Casey At The Bat Poem Analysis

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    There are a few similarities and differences in this comparison of the poem “Casey at the Bat” and “David and Goliath”. The first similarity of these two passages is they were both very confident in themselves. For example, in “Casey at the Bat” it says, ”There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face. And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat.” Casey is confident because he has pride and confidence in himself when he goes up to bat. Meanwhile, in “David and Goliath

  • Why Do Kings Exist Throughout History

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    Essay 2 Kings have existed throughout history since the beginning of time with Egypt having some of the first recorded monarchies beginning back in the 3rd Century with King Menes. Monarchies began because people needed a higher figure to look up to, to follow because they didn’t believe that God was the higher power or in some cases didn’t know who God was. The bible tells the story of God’s people constantly losing site of God as the center of their lives, so they thought they needed something

  • Gimpel The Fool

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    Gimpel The Fool An Analysis of Gimpel The Fool Gimpel the Fool is a story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Saul Bellow translated the story I read because the story was written in Yiddish. Gimpel The Fool is a story about a simple man named Gimpel. He is considered by many to be a fool because he is a very gullible man. He is constantly falling for tricks laid out by almost everyone. Gimpel is persuaded to marry Elka, a woman who will wind up using him also. Elka treats Gimpel very poorly

  • A Narrative Criticism of 1 Samuel 9:1-21

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    will now turn our attention. Identified in the NRSV translation of the Bible as the narrative in which “Saul [is] chosen to be King” we find in this text the first story of Saul’s call to kingship and the circumstances around it . Throughout this narrative, the author, or perhaps more accurately, editor(s) , evokes a number of literary features to build a story and to portray the character of Saul. In this essay, we will focus on the features of the narrative’s folklorist character, the use of type-scene

  • Comparing “David and Goliath” and The Basketball Underdog” by Malcolm Gladwell

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    The stories of “David and Goliath” and “The Basketball Underdog” are similar and different in many ways. These stories are both in the same book David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell’s book talks about underdogs, misfits, and the advantages of these people. Both of these stories have an overlying theme of the advantages of an underdog. The stories “David and Goliath” and “The Basketball Underdog” have many similarities and differences between the two of them. “David and Goliath” is a biblical

  • Samuel Psalm Analysis

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    The title describes on the day when the Lord delivered David from his enemies and from Saul. The heading, which is the theme, identifies the setting in Samuel. Since the book of Samuel records many accounts when David was protected and saved by God from his enemies, it can be inferred that Psalm 18 is connected based on the common theme and

  • David and the Five Loaves

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    INTRODUCTION In 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 King David was called a man after God’s own heart, but even he did things contrary to God’s Law. When David ate the Shrewbread of the Temple in Samuel 21:1-6 he broke the law and yet in Matthew 12:3-4, Mark 2:25-26, and Luke 6:1-5 Jesus uses David’s example of eating the shrewbread to justify his disciples. This paper is going to show how David’s actions compare to the Law, how Jesus describes David’s actions, and how David’s actions compare to the kings

  • Unit 5 Samuel Research Paper

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    worshiped God. God answered his prayer and said Samuel do as they ask, for they aren't displeased with you but myself. Samuel warned the people of the harm it may cause. Samuel had to give the people what they wanted. God said, as the first king, he chose Saul. Israel was still having trouble from his army and slaughter a lot of them, and it started a war between the two. The people were afraid for their life and ran