Thursday, 3 December 2015

CASE STUDY: KYLE COOPER

KYLE COOPER

Kyle Cooper is renouned for being a director and designer of many famous film title sequances including that of Seven, Spiderman, The Mummy, The Incredible Hulk and Final Destination 5 and programs like American Horror Story and The Walking Dead. He also direcreted the entirity of ‘New Port South’ in 2001.
He studdied grahic design at the Yale School Of Art and went on to co-found and name the creative name agency ‘Imaginary Forces’ which takes its name from a line in the prologue of William Shakespeare's 'King Henry the Fifth.'
This name was chosen as the company was created with the idea of prologues as a key feature and this quote came from a prologue of William Shakespeare’s which fits with the companies image.
He was a finalist in the ‘National Design Awards’ and has earned 5 emmy award nomintions. He hold the title for Honorary Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London and won an award for his work at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.



He claims his biggest influence is the opening of Stephen Frankfurt’s 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird.



In 2003 he left Imaginary Forces to go on to found ‘Prologue’ which was a creative agency in which there is a small team that concentrates on creating title sequences.

Cooper has worked on films such as; (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Cooper)

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