I chose a material, Memento directed by Christopher Nolan in 2001 in this bootleg in transduction project. I believe this film is well applied with the fast production features of the Risograph and particularly would be well articulated through the lens of deep cuts and hidden tracks in music.
Analyzing process
I analyzed this film’s script and I decided to select scenes containing important contents.
The screenplay shows two different screens in order to represent double narratives. The black and white sequences represent objective point of view
and the color represents protagonist's subjective point of view.
The black and white sequences are running forward, but the color is running backward. The main reason why it is not in chronological order is to let the audience become confused along with the protagonist who has memory loss.
In order to expose this theme of the film well, the director emphasize two parts.
1. Time frame and structure
2. Subjective and objective narratives.
In my publication, since I could not use every scene and structure from the film, so I focused on the contents which can show two narratives appropriately. I broke apart two narratives by using the left and right side of page and I distinguish them into colors such as blue and pink.
A process of manufacture of Risograph
Risograph is a high-speed digital printing system manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation. The tricky part is drying time. Riso ink will smudge after printing and depending on ink density and paper thickness can take a while to dry properly. Since I used 3 different colors and almost 120 masters, I had to let them dry overnight, or about 5 days before reprinting on top of it.
Page numbers
On the left side, I put all the black and white sequences to let the readers know all the information about the film. With this basic information, readers will read on the right side of pages after. On the right side is consisted of color sequences which show the protagonist's subjective point of view.
The color sequences and the black and white sequences meet toward the end of the movie. In my publication, I used the overlapping two color technique in order to emphasize the overlapping timeline.
My concept of flipping a book at the end is to let the readers have a sense of physically reversing time.
Design – Heesung Kim
Material – Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, 2001
Format – Letter half
Typeface – Courier
Print – Riso graph Digital Duplicator
Paper – White 1.0, Mohawk, French Paper
Pages – 42
Printrun – 9
Year – February, 2016
Material – Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, 2001
Format – Letter half
Typeface – Courier
Print – Riso graph Digital Duplicator
Paper – White 1.0, Mohawk, French Paper
Pages – 42
Printrun – 9
Year – February, 2016
