Kinetic Typography: Language (Stephen Fry Comments) (Syntax Tree)

"Kinetic typography uses groups of words and short phrases to make a movie"

This sentence is a little bit long, but we can break it into smaller chunks. Each piece is much easier to understand.

[Syntax Tree] "Kinetic typography uses groups of words and short phrases to make a movie." This long sentence is made of two shorter sentences as shown above (S = sentence, NP = noun phrase, VP = verb phrase). Here is an analysis of the sentence: [S [S [NP Kinetic typography] [VP [V uses] [NP groups of words and short phrases]] ] [S [VP [TO to] [VP make a movie]] ] ]

Below is a delightful kinetic typography video made by a clever graphic artist called Matthew Rogers. Please notice that the movie includes closed captions in Russian (just click on CC to turn them on or off):

Kinetic Typography: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Here is a magnificent example of kinetic typography by Seth Brau.The English is not very difficult (I have glossed some words below the break), and the ideas are very important.


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Seth Brau on Vimeo.

The complete 1948 declaration is long and a little difficult. This video shortens the text and makes it a little easier to understand by adding beautiful pictures and music.


Below is the complete text and some notes to help you understand the words in the video, You can also find links in Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French: