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

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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