PERJANTAI TALKSHOW THEMES
friday [finnish]
Each episode of Perjantai talk show had a unique key art and animations made by variety of designers. Here are the best bits by yours truly
conseptual design / graphic design / animation / screen writing / editing / sound design /
conseptual design / graphic design / animation / screen writing / editing / sound design /
episode 27:
Men
MEN / key art poster
episode 30:
War & peace
WAR & PEACE / key art poster
WAR & PEACE / intro animation
WAR & PEACE / interlude animation
The weekly published Perjantai-documentary also aired on the show and set the tone for the talk show. The purpose of the talk show was to broaden the discussion to a societal level by interviewing experts and individuals with personal experience on the subject. I made a significant contribution to the planning and conceptualization of the talk show topics, and was involved every week in deciding what would be the title of each episode. My main task was to design key art images, which were used in the promotional and cover visuals for the talk show on social media, as well as in audience engagement materials, such as posters and flyers. The purpose of the key art image was to comment on the talk show's theme from a fresh perspective, often with ironic exaggeration or a tongue-in-cheek approach. I used a stock image library, Shutterstock, as a base material to create these collage art pieces.
CONSEPTUALIZATION / KEY ART IMAGES
episode 36:
Beware Of Working!
BEWARE OF WORKING! / key art poster
BEWARE OF WORKING! / intro animation
BEWARE OF WORKING! / interlude animation
BEWARE OF WORKING! / 2. interlude animation
episode 40:
Supernatural
SUPERNATURAL / key art poster
ANIMATIONS
The idea of the intro animation was to bring the key art image to life and was used in the TV-trailer. Intro animation was also included in the intro theme of the show. Purpose of the second (and third) animation was to bring in a new perspective or a plot twist, and act as an interlude in the TV-show.
episode 42:
Entrepreneur
ENTREPRENEUR / key art poster
ENTREPRENEUR / intro animation
ENTREPRENEUR / interlude animation
SCHEDULING
The timeframe for creating each theme was quite tight. There were two days to come up with an idea and create the key art image and intro animation. The following week, there were two days to complete the animations.
episode 44:
Tobacco
TOBACCO / key art poster
TOBACCO / intro animation
BROTHERLY RIVALRY
In the beginning we worked on the themes turn by turn with graphic designer Lauri Kuusela. Lauri was a more experienced graphic designer than me, and seeing his amazing work inspired me to improve my own skills week by week. I felt that there was a healthy brotherly rivalry between us. Later on the talented designers Henry Lämsä and Waltteri Lahti joined the graphics team and gave their own unique spices into the mix.
episode 46:
Make Finland great Again
MAKE FINLAND GREAT AGAIN / key art poster
MAKE FINLAND GREAT AGAIN / intro animation
I used a sound bank “Epidemic sound“ for music and sound effects. But sometimes I just couldn’t find the right tone and had to become a foley artist and/or a voice actor myself. You can hear my voice acting debut in the SISU interlude animation.
SOUND DESIGN
episode 48:
Sisu
SISU / key art poster
SISU / intro animation
SISU / interlude animation
episode 58:
Education
EDUCATION / key art poster
EDUCATION / intro animation
EDUCATION / interlude animation
EDUCATION / 2. interlude animation
episode 51:
High voltage on the Baltic sea
HIGH VOLTAGE ON THE BALTIC SEA / key art poster
episode 60:
Finland 100 (years) Perkele!
FINLAND 100 (YEARS) PERKELE! / key art poster
FINLAND 100 (YEARS) PERKELE! / intro animation
FINLAND 100 (YEARS) PERKELE! / 2. interlude animation
episode 70:
AI
AI / key art poster
AI / intro animation
episode 60:
Is Travelling selfish?
IS TRAVELLING SELFISH? / key art poster
IS TRAVELLING SELFISH? / interlude animation
episode 85:
Reality TV
REALITY TV / key art poster
REALITY TV / intro animation
episode 89:
What’s facinating about murder?
WHAT’S FACINATING ABOUT MURDER? / key art poster
WHAT’S FACINATING ABOUT MURDER? / intro animation
WHAT’S FACINATING ABOUT MURDER? / interlude animation
episode 92:
When does Medicine turn to addiction?
WHEN DOES MEDICINE TURN TO ADDICTION? / key art poster
WHEN DOES MEDICINE TURN TO ADDICTION? / interlude animation
CHANGE IN ANIMATION STYLE
Via copyright issues we had to give up shutterstock and a talented illustrator Waltteri Lahti joined my graphics team. It changed the workflow quite a bit. We started to create the animations as a team. I was in charge of all the planning and editing and Waltteri would illustrate anything I could imagine based on my fast scetches. In the editing phase there was still a lot of motion animation left for my headache/amusement.
episode 114:
Burnout
BURNOUT / key art poster
BURNOUT / interlude animation
episode 118:
Cellphone grew into hand
CELLPHONE GREW INTO HAND / key art poster
CELLPHONE GREW INTO HAND / intro animation
episode 160:
Loneliness during Covid
LONELINESS DURING COVID / key art poster
LONELINESS DURING COVID / interlude animation