Not a scene with dialogue but one of Saul Bass' great opening sequences from Hitchcock's North By North West. Simple use of text and line skewed to meet the parallel lines of the building coupled with sound to evoke setting and tone. If I was to create my kinetic type project from dialogue from a Hitchcock movie it could take the route of a Bass homage piece and the same could be done with Pablo Ferro whose opening title sequence from Dr. Strangelove is instantly recognisable. Bass' fonts and colour schemes could be used to create the piece and they would aid in making the dialogue recognisable from the original source.
Polish Movie Posters
I stumbled my way across this interesting collection of posters from Poland of American movies (more here). What I gather from comments and other sources on the internet is that copyright law prohibited the Polish from using the original promotional material so they made up their own and in some cases used political commentary within the design making the posters relate less to the movie. I find them more interesting than most of the bland studio released posters. I find the nature of the typography in the Eyes Wide Shut, Mississippi's Burning and Tootsie posters to be freer and more expressive especially considering the fact that I will be using spoken word in this first project. The Blues Brothers poster shows the two main characters framed by text (cast list from the film), but they seem to have missed something with this movie as I do not recall the brothers being Siamese twins. What I think about when I look at this in relation to my project is the way I could maybe use negative space to reveal a character or shape I also think the colour used here conveys the film superbly.
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