“Waves” tells the story of an African American family navigating love, toxic masculinity, and forgiveness. Tyler has a relentless pursuit for perfection, but in the midst of a challenge loses control and makes a mistake that ruins his life and tears apart his family. The film’s second half shifts to his sister’s journey toward forgiveness, symbolized by a watch that melts from a perfect machine into fluid metal which goes on to form another structure, representing the flawed ideals and eventual forgiveness at the heart of the story.

I chose Sherborne because I wanted a serif font that

is strong, and traditional to pair with my more fluid and

modern styled visuals in order to stay to the essence of

a traditional title sequence.

For my type treatment, I decided to build the type out in

Cinema 4d and back light it with an area light. Doing this gave the type a bit more texture and made it feel more integrated with my visuals. I then put it a layer beneath all my lighting effects in after effects so that it would be lit the same as the other visuals.