ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

More profile about the speaker
Jakob Trollback | Speaker | TED.com
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Jakob Trollback: A new kind of music video

Jakob Trollback überdenkt das Musikvideo

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Wie würde ein Musikvideo aussehen wenn es unter der Regie von der Musik stände, als ein reiner Ausdruck von einem tollen Song und nicht getrieben durch das Konzept eines Filmproduzenten? Designer Jakob Trollback berichtet über die Ergebnisse seines Form Experiments.
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I’m workingArbeiten a lot with motionBewegung and animationAnimation,
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Ich arbeite viel mit Bewegung und Animation
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and alsoebenfalls I'm an oldalt DJDJ and a musicianMusiker.
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und bin ausserdem ein alter DJ und Musiker.
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So, musicMusik- videosVideos are something that I always foundgefunden interestinginteressant,
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Also sind Musikvideos etwas, dass ich schon immer interessant fand,
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but they always seemscheinen to be so reactivereaktive.
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aber sie scheinen immer so unselbstständig zu sein.
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So I was thinkingDenken, can you removeentfernen us as creatorsSchöpfer
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Also dachte ich mir, könnte man nicht uns als Schöpfer entfernen
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and try to make the musicMusik- be the voiceStimme
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und versuchen der Musik eine Stimme zu geben
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and have the animationAnimation followinges folgen it?
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und die Animationen ihr folgen lassen?
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So with two designersDesigner, TolgaTolga and ChristinaChristina, at my officeBüro, we tookdauerte a trackSpur --
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Mit zwei Designern, Christina und Tolga, aus meinem Büro, nahmen wir ein Lied --
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manyviele of you probablywahrscheinlich know it. It’s about 25 yearsJahre oldalt,
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viele von Ihnen kennen es wahrscheinlich: es ist ungefähr 25 Jahre alt
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and it's DavidDavid ByrneByrne and BrianBrian EnoEno --
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und es ist von David Byrne and Brian Eno --
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and we did this little animationAnimation.
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und wir haben diese kleine Animation erstellt.
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And I think that it's maybe interestinginteressant, alsoebenfalls,
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Und ich denke es ist vielleicht auch interessant,
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that it dealsAngebote with two problematicproblematisch issuesProbleme,
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dass sich das Lied mit zwei problematischen Fragen beschäftigt,
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whichwelche are risingsteigend watersWasser and religionReligion.
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die der Meeresspiegelanstieg und Religion sind.
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SongLied: Before God destroyedkaputt gemacht the people on the EarthErde,
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Bevor Gott die Menschen auf der Erde zerstörte,
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he warnedgewarnt NoahNoah to buildbauen an ArkArk.
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warnte er Noah vor, eine Arche zu bauen.
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And after NoahNoah builtgebaut his ArkArk,
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Und nachdem Noah die Arche gebaut hatte,
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I believe he told NoahNoah to warnwarnen the people
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glaube ich, dass er Noah die Menschen warnen ließ,
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that they mustsollen changeVeränderung all theirihr wickedBöse waysWege
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dass sie von all ihren bösen, verdorbenen Wegen ablassen sollten
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before he come uponauf them and destroyzerstören them.
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bevor Er über sie käme und alles zerstörte.
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And when NoahNoah had doneerledigt builtgebaut his ArkArk,
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Und als Noah damit fertig war seine Arche zu bauen,
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I understandverstehen that somebodyjemand beganbegann to rendzerreißen a songLied.
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meine ich, dass jemand ein Lied anstieß.
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And the songLied beganbegann to moveBewegung on I understandverstehen like this.
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Und das Lied begann, meine ich, wie folgt.
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And when NoahNoah had doneerledigt builtgebaut his ArkArk ...
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Und als Noah seine Arche fertiggestellt hatte ...
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MoveBewegen on ... In factTatsache ... ConcernSorge ...
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Mache weiter ...
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So they get tiredmüde, has come darkdunkel and rainRegen; they get wearymüden and tiredmüde.
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So werden sie müde, Dunkelheit und Regen sind gekommen; sie werden lustlos und müde.
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And then he wentging and knockedklopfte an oldalt ladyDame houseHaus.
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Und dann ging er und klopfte an der Tür einer alten Frau.
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And oldalt ladyDame ranlief to the doorTür and say, "Who is it?"
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Und die alte Frau ging zur Tür und fragte: "Wer ist da?"
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JackJack say, "Me, Mama-sanMama-san, could we spendverbringen the night here?
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Jackson Lee Mama sagte: "Können wir die Nacht hier verbringen?"
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Because we’reRe farweit from home, we’reRe very tiredmüde."
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"Denn wir sind weit entfernt von zu Hause und wir sind sehr erschöpft."
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And the oldalt ladyDame said, "Oh yes, come on in."
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Und die alte Frau sagte: "Aber ja, kommt herein."
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It was come darkdunkel and rainRegen, will make you wearymüden and tiredmüde.
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Und Dunkelheit und Regen waren gekommen, um dich lustlos und müde zu machen.
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Translated by J. Henning Buchholz
Reviewed by Lex Asobo

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

More profile about the speaker
Jakob Trollback | Speaker | TED.com

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