Sunday, 13 August 2006 | Levent OZLER
Adolescent Creates Animations for CMT's Country Fried Home Videos
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CMT's Country Fried Home Videos is a clip show specially inflected with southern roots flavor. CFHV brings bold humor to CMT, the authentic authority on all things Americana. adolescent created a collage-animation title sequence for CFHV that plays with iconic images of America, linking them together with the wit of a Rube Goldberg machine.
The animation features cut-out characters caught in an absurd series of funny accidents, over-the-top versions of those captured on homemade videos: an older cowboy poses for a photo on the edge of the Grand Canyon and falls into a mountain lake where another guy is fly fishing. This scares a giant swordfish which rips the fisherman out of his boat sending him flying around the lake. Meanwhile a kid in a thermal shirt and dirtbike helmet tries to jump a log in a shopping cart and the swaggering man casually watching this spectacle is surprised by a bear that chases him to the CFHV logo: a rusty diner sign like you'd see on Route 66 advertising the best barbecue ribs. Capturing the tone of CMT's Country Fried Home Videos proved tricky because it's easy to fall into the goofy graphic tropes of home videos but adolescent succeeded in expressing the self-effacing humor of the truly confident, the clever bravado of the content and comfortable, those who appreciate life's surprises both good and bad, which resonates with CMT's audience.
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About adolescent
Based in New York with international presence, adolescent creative team has been responsible for producing innovative creative work for a variety of projects for entertainment, government and environmental organizations alike. adolescent has collaborated with VH1, MTV Europe and Ireland, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Adidas Originals and the British Government. The team is working on image and brand projects in the areas of broadcast and print media.
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