PASSÉ

MUSIC VIDEO

Forth designed / animated the color graphics overlays, compositing them directly over the black & white edited video. The director had a specific look in mind, so Forth supplied a large number of initial frames to focus the dialogue and establish a graphics narrative to apply to the video. Our goal was to add rhythmic accent and punctuation, to augment the performance without obscuring it. The shapes in the overlays were produced by hand prior to compositing.

PHOEBE

LOGO / BUSINESS CARD

What do you do vs. who are you? Sketches for this card included professional titles like Seamstress, Stylist, etc., but none of these seemed sufficiently descriptive of jill of all trades Phoebe Berg. Phone number and e-mail (a single line on reverse) make the card actionable. Printed on heavy stock with a hole punched in the upper left corner, each card is individually threaded with a cloth ribbon or lace bow. A subtle touch transforming each card into a gift, a precious object, a reminder of the loveliness and creativity of Miss Phoebe herself.

 

Woven Clothing Label

Etsy Store Banner

Collectible Photo Series

NETWORKING OF KNOWLEDGE & STORYTELLING

DAVID WEINBERGER PRESENTATION VIDEO
in collaboration with Pickerel Pie
 
This six minute video for David Weinberger’s presentation at the Future of StoryTelling Conference was to be viewed prior to the conference to help attendees choose which presentations to attend. The challenge was finding a visual metaphor simple enough to be easily understood, while broad enough to encompass the concepts discussed in the piece. The project was particularly satisfying to work on, its conceptual framework closely related to ideas the designer has been exploring on his blog The Missing Point.

 

Producer: Dewey Thompson (Pickerel Pie)
Design / Animation: Thomas Gallagher (Forth)
Editor / Audio: Brad McDermott (Pickerel Pie)

DAYDREAM

THEATER POSTER / POSTCARD

This poster / postcard was designed for Daydream writer / director Max Arnaud. Overlay graphics are used here to represent the breakdown in the main character's ability to differentiate between the real world and the virtual gaming world he inhabits.

JEFF KOONS AT 180 MPH

SUNDANCE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY TITLE DESIGN
Collaboration with Pickerel Pie

This opening title animation for a documentary about the Jeff Koons Art Car is a logical progression from the Koons design itself, his captured moment of dynamism and energy put back into motion.

 

HERDING CATS

FILM TITLE / CREDIT SEQUENCES
Collaboration with Film Entity

Opening titles and end credits for the film Herding Cats. The titles and credit animations are a simple play on the “backwards” N & R of the Cyrillic alphabet, flipping the characters 180 degrees each time they appear. Original footage shot by Beth Dewey.

 

UNTITLED (63519N)

EXPERIMENTAL

Someone asks you “what is it like in your reality?” Can you convey your answer in words alone? Forth created this piece to simplify our answer – “Like this.”



An associate asked us to produce a two minute video for Spring Magazine’s Tokyo fashion show. With no restriction on content, Forth took the opportunity to explore themes of internal vs. external identity - how do you visualize yourself vs. how do others see you? What is it like to be you, to have your perceptions and filters - your awareness? With these ideas in mind we began designing the graphics and costumes, shooting performance and movement video, composing music, choreographing the dance, etc. The final edited piece is an exploration in experiential communication, a spirited push back against the demand within our society to describe reality verbally.

BEYOND THE FESTIVAL

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE PSA TRAILER SERIES
in collaboration with Pickerel Pie   

Forth collaborated with Pickerel Pie on this series of five Sundance Institute trailers to be played before films at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Forth designed / animated an open, close, and spot information gfx (statistics, ids, etc.) keeping the design consistent while giving each trailer a slightly different look. The motion graphics are based on the festival print / web campaign by Durre Design.
 

Project Writer / Director: Dewey Thompson (Pickerel Pie)
Project Technical Director: Chris Torella (Pickerel Pie)
Designer / Animator: Thomas Gallagher (Forth)
Editor / Original Audio: Jeff Martini

BOXING ON THE EDGE

SHOWTIME NETWORKS IMAGE PROMO

Producer Wiley Faselt delivered his rough cut to Forth along with the individual shots and audio tracks to be re-cut with graphics. This allowed us to synch the audio as well as finesse and effect the shots. Color was removed, grain added, shots composited overlaying raw footage from more than one source. The seamless integration of video and audio was achieved thru a complimentary back and forth between producer and designer, the edited version sweetened by an audio engineer for the final spot.

There are several advantages to working this way. When the spot needed to be updated several times over the next year, it was a simple process to re-composite shots that were changed and re-render the spot. Another advantage was that the graphics could be modified and re-cycled for use in a number of related spots. In those instances these new graphics were rendered with an alpha channel and e-mailed to the facility where the new spots were being cut, saving the producer time, money and a headache or two.

Producer: Wiley Faselt (Huntshaw Creative)
Design / Animation: Thomas Gallagher (Forth)
Music: Sandblast

UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION

DVD PACKAGING

The UN Multimedia Department was looking to design a folder for the 21st Century DVD and related PR materials. We suggested that a DVD included with other materials may simply appear to be additional info on CD rather than the focus of the mailing. We proposed a six panel digipak, opening to the DVD in the center panel, with only a minimal amount of text to direct the recipient to the main focus: the show itself. The imagery used is essentially a print translation of the show open graphics produced by Shine, with all but one of the photographic images swapped with alternates from the show. A 100% recycled material digipak was selected to reflect a key theme of the show: global warming & climate change.

KOOSINICH REMIX

KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT

The remix and original videos were viewed more than 20,000 times on YouTube, reposted on political blogs and social networking sites, even projected in the New Hampshire campaign office window. Forth wrote the scripts for both spots. Hybrid had given approval pending payment for the use of their music in a TV ad, but the campaign came to a sudden end within days of completing the TV version of the spot.

Koo-sin-ich t-shirts and buttons using the same designs were made available in conjunction with the videos to give supporters a visual aid as well as a fun way to engage with voters, assisting recall of the name by having them say it aloud.

Deluged with a litany of endless distractions; a choreographed drama that preys upon our passions and prejudices, a stacked primary process in which the votes of two states are held hostage like two aces under the table, a nomination process that will end in a scripted marriage of the two “opposing” sides of the same coin; who will ask the obvious question being minimized by this reality television version of our democratic process? When they ask you who you are for, ask them “how ‘bout ending the war?”

Forth was involved in the 2004 Kucinich campaign as well. With a design team already in place, Forth’s contributions to the campaign were made on a local level. Forth designed a flyer to capitalize on Kucinich’s reciept of the top line on the NYS ballot. The flyer, based on George Lois’ campaign designs, was handed out on a march through Park Slope, Brooklyn where Thomas Gallagher ran as a Kucinich Delegate. Source Video - Cielito Pascual. Editing / Sound Synch - Thomas Gallagher (Forth). Posters featured in the video designed by George Lois.