Germany is a trampolin
title and credit design

Germany is a trampolin

Title- and credits design for the documentary Germany is a trampolin created by ↗red.green.films

Direction, Production

Contribution

Title Design · Credit Design

Project Type

Title Sequence · Credits · Documentary · Typography

Completion Date

February 2021

Technique

2D

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Synposis

Two lives before and after returning to Cameroon. Romeo is disillusioned by Germany and wants to fly back home. Demian got deported and has been trying to return to Germany ever since. How do you manage to live between two worlds, in an unstable present and with an uncertain future?

Approach

The design is based on the bureaucratic way of german government executing immigration law. Documents such as »suspension of deportation« have a certain unempatheic visual appeal. I used this visual language to create the typography, title and credit design. The wavy textured background and the use of the official mono typeface »OCR B Std« create the feeling of unempathatic bureaucracy.
The use of THIS<<SPECIFIC<<TYPE<<<< of naming convention further strengthens such feeling.

Credits

Director, Producer, Editor

Marc Sebastian Eils

Cinematographer, Grading

Hannes Schulze

Sound

Nils Plambeck

Title-, Creditdesign

Jakob Werner

Support

Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)

Specs

Direction, Production

Contribution

Title design · Credit design

Technique

2D

Project Type

Title Sequence · Credits · Documentary · Typography

Genre

Migration

Country of Origin

Germany, Cameroon

Language

German

Length

30 minutes

Completion Date

February 2021