Heart of the Matter (1984)

Concept and creative process

Titles for a debate series investigating the ethical dilemmas that lie behind the issues of the day. The simple titles were filmed and animated on a rostrum using back-lit Kodaliths of clear lettering on black with coloured gels filling in the colour. The sequence has two different actions of multiple programme logos, animating at two different speeds and in two different directions simultaneously, which both begin and end as one logo centre screen. Simple and economical to shoot it was nevertheless quite a complex piece of choreography to work out in terms of the movements of the animation table.