The Vaping Culture of New Zealand: Project Start - Log 2
For my podcast, I had been experimenting with various types of Title Cards for it.
The initial idea was to use the greens and blues mentioned in the previous log, as well as a simple transparent smoke effect to relate to the idea of smoking/vaping. While this was decent as a basic idea, I do admit that it's currently a little dull.
I went in a vastly different direction for the second attempt, but this one was even duller, not really having much of an identity aside from being a stock image of smoke.
Going back to that first template, I experimented a little with the shapes and added a bit of sheen the colors in order to avoid flat visuals.
Test 3 ended up inspiring a few pallet swaps, with Test 5 in particular being quite appealing to me, on top of conveying the three major ideas wanted with this title card (Calm, Metallic and Smokey)
Test 6 proved even more appealing as the different angling of the shapes can allow for the eyes to be focused on the centre of the title where the text will appear, while still keeping that appealing color pallet.
Test 6 prompted another round of pallet swaps. This wasn't massively successful, with Test 8's color choices being strangely sickening to me for a reason I cannot explain, but I did end up liking Test 9 more than I was expecting.
Currently, my favourites for the Podcast Title Card are Tests 5, 6 and 9.
