Blogistania

Late last year I was working on an identity & title design for Blogistania with my friend Riikka Kurki. Blogistania is a 10-episode series on finnish bloggers working mostly with crafts, featuring one person per episode.

We had an idea about making a kind of travel video of the country of Blogistania, featuring different locations, all built from stuff used in crafts and such. The producers liked the idea and the initial test clips so we built miniature sets in the Güüti Film Studios (my kitchen table) and shot them with Canon 7D and various lenses. For example, in the header image the water is cellophane on top of blue carton, the beach is brown sugar (boats are candy) and the palm tree is a brush standing in a clump of Play-doh with a pearl necklace around it.

There is some camera shake in the movements and other "errors" but they kind of fit the theme of the program so we didn't polish the camera movement too much in post-production. We did make a lego dolly track but it didn't work that well, sadly. There's a link to the title video at the bottom of the post.

The logo (above) is made with one stroke so it can be recreated with, for example, string. The end title background video below is an example of that. It's been shortened to 10 seconds from the original 40.

End titles background clip in Vimeo

The title clip at Riikka's Vimeo

Blogistania in Facebook