Concept and creative process
Titles for a 1960s series ‘The Sandie Shaw Supplement’, in which Sandie Shaw performed songs each week on a specific theme. To the soundtrack of an old typewriter keyboard and mechanism, a dot-screen portrait image of the singer animated on and then wiped off screen to the sound of the carriage return. The programme logo zoomed up from infinity to hold centre screen. The animation was created directly under a rostrum camera and was filmed stop-motion in reverse with the complete image being painted out in small sections, so that when the film played correctly, the portrait appeared to be being typed on.