Cut & Color
publication + typography + art direction
overview
This publication looks back on major on-screen hair transformations and their meaning, reviews hair’s importance on screen, and parades through images of iconic hair moments in film. Often in film, hair transformations are used to symbolize various hard-hitting moments that detail a character’s strength, resilience, desire for change, and other inspiring revelations. What exactly does a haircut/hair transformation mean? Or rather, imply? Change can be depicted in a plethora of ways, but through hair, filmmakers can elicit deep emotion on screen and on the other side of it. Something as simple as hair can mean so much.
approach
Through iconic imagery, a film like grain, and use of original script material, Cut & Color creates a dreamy atmosphere from page to page. The content is brought to life through the choice of imagery and using script typography as an image. Using the images of script material was my choice to mimic the way scenes are brought to life from paper to screen. Essentially when using each script as an image, the scripts become the screen.
