The Typography as narrative parameter of cinematic art


Published: Nov 23, 2022
Keywords:
Typography Cinematic narration Semiology Graphic design
Eleni Kremida
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9954-6115
Iro Laskari
Spyridon Siakas
Abstract

The article explores how, through the rules and practices that govern graphic design on the one hand and cinema on the other, a composition of inventive, original, and structured audiovisual narrative can be created with the contribution of typography as a parameter of cinematic narration. The research was based on the limited semantic theories developed by the theorists of cinema and design, which refer to the relationship between text and image. These theories were analyzed through representative samples of the use of typographic elements in cinema in which typography was an active element of the narration, exploring the demonstrative and co-declarative meaning that emerges. In conclusion, the contribution of typographic composition in the context of a cinematic narrative is determined.

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