A History of The Title Sequence

A History Of The Title Sequence from From Form on Vimeo.

As I've already talked about this video for context of practice I just wanted to show this to look at each of the mentioned in this to gage an awareness of what's come before and maybe influence and inspire my work.

George Melies


Geroge Melies is the original specialfx artist who filmed people and layered them on top of each other to create sets. Tricking the audience. Although his work is really interesting because it's so avant garde for his era, I would really define him as being a title artist, I'd say he was a short film maker being one of the first special fx artists.



Saul Bass

Saul Bass obviously is renowned for the splicing in a title sequence of with block colours and chopping characters and objects up during the course of a title sequence. He is also a very renowned storyboard artist. And his work is primarily known being associated with Alfred Hitchcock. Fun fact about Alfred Hitchcock he asked to film in Walt Disney's disneyland and Walt disney said no he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”


Saul Bass' title sequences for Alfred Hitchcock from MovieTitles on Vimeo.


Maurice Binder

Is the man behind the classic James Bond titles, using circles to emphasise the focal point and action and combining black and white and psychedelic colours of the time.


Maurice Binder from duncan gidney on Vimeo.

Stephen Frankfurt

The man who is mainly famed for the opening credits of To Kill a Mocking Bird, who brings simplicity to the title sequence, with text overlay film reel.



Pablo Ferro

Pablo Ferro: A Career Retrospective from Art of the Title on Vimeo.

Richard Greenberg
I really like the diversity of the work in Pablo Ferro and Richard Greenberg I feel like Richard Greenberg is a newer more controversial version of Pablo Ferro. I think I'm overwhelmed by so much I don't know what to take into my own work I just want to take it all.


R/Greenberg Associates: A Film Title Retrospective from Art of the Title on Vimeo.

Kyle Cooper

Danny Yount
 

I love this sequence it's so beautifully done.

I think they are like the cool versions of animators, i imagine them to be less geeky and more hip and have lots of friends who are graphic designers. I don't think I have enough 'cool' in me to make a title of this standard. I need to surround myself with more so it oozes onto me.