Concept and creative process
Titles for ‘Smile It Could Be Verse’, a short series of programmes where poets read their own poems and also the work of other people. The title sequence solution was purely typographic in design. Positive and negative versions of the programme title, in different sizes in off-white, beige and black, were panned horizontally in alternate directions as separate layers over one other. The main title cut on as individual words in peak white in the centre of the screen over the montage background. Readings from this series are available to view through the link to BBC Programmes below, notably Spike Milligan’s ‘Nonsense Poetry’ and Benjamin Zephaniah’s reading of his poem ‘Clever Trevor’, about a footballer scoring a goal.