Our friends on the wonderful Submarine Channel have done some more insightful interviews with title designers and directors for their “Forget The Film Watch The Titles” series, so be sure to head over and have a look!
Since Alan Ball’s “True Blood” has been aired here in the UK for the first time we have fallen in love with the whole series from the very first second on.
This is not only because of Mr. Ball’s huge talent for writing great scripts like the Academy Award (and many other awards) winning original screenplay for “American Beauty” and his creation of “Six Feet Under” and now “True Blood”.
But beside the fantastic story itself, this is also thanks to the frightfully and beautiful opening titles by Digital Kitchen and the cool title track “Bad Things” by Jace Everett.
No wonder this title sequence has now been nominated in the “Outstanding Main Title Design” category for this year’s Emmy awards. We keep our fingers crossed!
Digital Kitchen now has published a making of and a very insightful case study of the project (link to the case study after the jump).
One very inspirational source for visually creative people like VJs and motion graphers are title sequences of feature films or tv productions and series.
They are perfectly choreographed extracts of what is forthcoming, they are their own form of music videos or short films and the creative use of typography can be mind blowing…
…creative people’s minds only, of course.
There are so many things to learn, like the perfect timing, compressed dramaturgy and the creative use of graphics, contrast, color and typography orbiting around one theme, all clenched into 1 to 3 minutes.
In the case of the (opening) titles, the theme is the story that comes after the title closes, which adds anymore to the tension.
And for some of us it even is addictive to collect those tiny pieces of motion gems and to watch it over and over again.
The girls and boys of artofthetitle.com know of this addiction and they decided to act as our dealers, to provide us with our daily dose of titles of the highest quality.
And this blog really proves, that (unfortunately) sometimes the title sequence is far better, than what comes afterwards.
