Title designer Paul Donnellon of VooDooDog talks about the process of creating the stop-motion end credit sequence for Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. In little over 10 weeks, Donnellon and his team delivered a fabulous happy-go-lucky sequence, all the while dealing with a director who was unfamiliar with the animation workflow. A story about … Continued
The London-based Irish student Kris Clarkin created this live-action opening title sequence for a proposed film adaptation of the book Kill Your Friends, which addresses the age-old unholy trinity of sex, drugs and champagne against the debaucherous backdrop of late 90s Britpop hedonism. Made on a spectacularly tiny budget of 350 British pounds sterling, Clarkin … Continued
Concept by Gaspar Noé, eclectic typography by Tom Kan, ear-melting soundtrack by Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter, and magical electrophotographic images by experimental filmmaker Thorsten Fleisch: These are the ingredients of the high impact, high energy title sequence of Enter the Void. If you haven’t seen these floating around on the web yet, you’re in for … Continued
Harmony Korine, filmmaker extraordinaire, enfant terrible, wunderkind and bla-bla what not, just dropped a short commissioned film for fashion label Proenza Schouler titled Act da Fool. Korine went out and shot a couple of scenes with a derelict gang of the baddest girls from the Nashville projects, Proenza Schouler-clad head to toe. One of the … Continued
Fast-paced, violent, loud, in-your-face and brilliantly executed. That just about sums up PIC‘s opening title sequence for The Final Destination. The perfect introduction to the fourth installment of a successful horror movie series. We discussed the ‘Making Of’ in an email interview with art director Jarik van Sluijs and executive producer Pamela Green of this … Continued
Watching title sequences on a website is great, but nothing beats the silver screen, right? So we decided, it’s time to take this show on the road. Fall 2010, the Forget the Film, Watch the Titles compilation program, featuring one hour of the best contemporary title sequences, will be screened in 12 cities and the Playgrounds … Continued
“All technology to do with the production of visual effects interests us,” says Pablo Barquín of Physalia – a motion-graphics studio based in Barcelona, Spain. Using Kyle McDonald’s free and open DIY 3D scanner software, Physalia created an unpolished and bold but innovative piece of motion art for Mad MMX – an international design event … Continued
There’s only so much you can do with fashion photography. Great for mags, but on the internet, short film is the medium of choice for adventurous brands who want to stand out. And don’t fashion and film make a perfect couple? Throw some sex in the mix and you’ve got an audience…
It’s an ongoing trend: the (faux) documentary-style music video. Upped this week on 2Pause: Daniel Wirtberg & Jonas Rudstrom‘s 2009 promo “Burial” for Miike Snow video. The promo opens with a gorgeous, albeit somewhat cliche footage of what appears to be ancient city of Varanasi at the Ganges River in “Beautiful India.” Sort of similar … Continued
Miike Snow‘s latest music video “Rabbit” directed by the ever-fabulous and unstoppable Andreas Nilsson. The promo features a bearded kid, four fiercely-styled video babes, and a brilliant dub dance routine in a hip-kitsch living room setting. Cherry on top: the crazy ass finale featuring a reenactment of 2 Live Crew‘s notorious “As Nasty As They … Continued
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