Supports of graphic elements

 
Application
Digital
Post production
Print
 

The graphics are considered applied when its design foresees and results in an affixing on other props and therefore must take into account the finish and production of the object, the support material that will have to host the graphics and the fact that representation techniques other than ordinary printing, such as make-up, modeling, sewing, 3D printing or painting.

A graphic can be reproduced within a film through digital means. By digital we mean all those cases in which it is a display within the film that shows the graphic element. Video walls, televisions, computer screens, telephones or any output that reproduces a static or moving image are to be considered digital media.

We are talking about post-production when the graphic element is applied to the video, during the editing of the film itself. This is the case of interfaces that denote the point of view of a machine, a camera or a viewer. It all started with the red dot of the superimposed recording, the famous “rec”. Other cases are special graphic effects through which concepts, sensations, spells or noises are expressed as in the case of Scott Pilgrim, in which the style of comics is rendered through onomatopoeias.
The most classic type of support, the most traditional of the graphic designer’s profession. By print support we mean everything that is produced on paper: Posters, brochures, books, flyers, newspapers are the basis of the work required of a designer in the film industry.