Tal Rosner

www.talrosner.com

Tal Rosner is a freelance abstract filmmaker who was a guest lecturer at Stockport College last year. After hearing about Tal's arrival and that he created the opening credits for Skins, I could not wait for the lecture because I am huge fan of skins including the opening credits.

I was quite surprised at how young Tal was as he didn't look much older than me and my classmates which I found intriguing that you don't need years of experience and knowledge to create industry level work.

Tal started the lecture by showing his final major project for his Graphic Design Degree, which was a 4 minute abstract film called Doppelganger. He explained that he has always been influenced by rhythm and movement and that his final major project finally allowed him to use this. Doppelganger was created by Tal attaching a video camera to the front of a mini train and filmed the whole journey. Tal explained he took this video into after effects and added lots of different mirrored effects and 4 way screens repeated to create an abstract video. Each frame could be paused and used as a print because it the layout and composition was arranged beautifully. His final video was very unusual and I loved the the final outcome, it reminded me of my rhythm of the city project in my second year in which I had to create a 2 minute video to create the rhythm of the city.

From this Tal got a job in a design studio in Soho, but didn't enjoy the experience at all. He explained that he loved working by himself and having full control over a project. From this Tal was asked individually to create a similar piece to Doppelganger for two french pianist. This was quite different for Tal because his previous visuals were always sync up with techno music, so to create visuals for a piano was quite strange for him. However, Tal managed to sync each element of the visuals up with the piano's and the outcome was again amazing.

From this, Tal was approached by E4 to create the opening credits for Skins. Tal incorporated his unique style along with footage from the each episode to create the credits. At the end of each credit the footage creates the word skins which is create in a very abstract way which is complete sync with the soundtrack. Tal won a Bafta Award for his opening credits for Skins, which is a huge achievement especially for a guy so young on a brand new drama series.

I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture by Tal Rosner and have found myself constantly looking at his work since his lecture. Throughout his work you can see a clear influence in composition, layout, shapes and colour and each of his work is recognizable because of his unique style. I hope I can create my own unique style so it is recognizable in different pieces of my work.