{"id":103,"date":"2026-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/building-the-nightwater-titles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:48","slug":"building-the-nightwater-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/building-the-nightwater-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Nightwater titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nightwater is a festival of light art, which makes it a hard client for a title sequence. The audience spends three days looking at real light. They notice fake light at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One rule: no light we cannot explain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every streak in the titles comes from a light in the scene. If something glows, there is a lamp. If a trail appears, something moved past a lamp. It made the first week slow. It made every change after that fast, because the light did the right thing on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-1024x975.jpg\" alt=\"Thin orange lines bending across a dark floor toward the horizon.\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-1536x1462.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-2048x1950.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/light-orange-lines-1280x1219.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The floor shot. The lines are lit by one sun lamp just below the horizon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Color first, then motion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before any animation, I made a color script: one swatch for each beat of the music. The film runs cold to warm and ends on paper white. Once the festival approved the strip, the edit almost cut itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked for something people would stay in their seats for.<\/p>\n<cite>Hanne Ruusk, artistic director, Nightwater Festival<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full case study, with the boards and the color script, is on the project page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from eight weeks on the opening titles of a festival about light, from the first board to the last render.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[50,49],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process","tag-color","tag-title-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}