At this point, we were nearly finished and while George was
getting to grips with the software After Effects I took on the task of
designing the information screens that would display the ingredients, oven
temperature and cooking time.
Following on from Charlie Chaplin, I then looked at a couple
of silent films, focusing on the screens rather than the overall theme, and
found these examples:
I also looked at Laurel Hardy (top right)and the films Cafe Elektric, The Kid Stakes, A Christmas Carol and The Cheat. Out of these options we preferred the ones in the corners because of the texture. another factor that attracted us was that even though they are simple they are not boring to the eye but easy to read with a complimentary range of fonts.
Looking at a couple of modern takes I found
that that they either had a decorative border:
Or they were completely different, having no screens whatsoever but instead had the speech at the bottom and I know that I didn't want that because it seemed more like subtitles:
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