Title Sequence
タイトルシーケンス / 1955– / Motion / Title Design
Designs a film's opening minutes as a work in its own right — shapes, type and music in sync, summarizing the theme before the story. Saul Bass redefined the title as a prologue, not a preview.
Cut-paper shapes / Type synced to music / The theme compressed / Art independent of the feature
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't make it ornament unrelated to the film. Only the structure that summarizes the theme survives as style.
- Further study
- Saul Bass, The Man with the Golden Arm / Maurice Binder's 007 openings / Kyle Cooper, Se7en