We’ve seen retro before at Watch the Titles, but this is Retro with a capital ‘R’. Done with an immaculate sense of styling, tongue-in-cheek, and oozing with Fun, Foreign Language is a music video that emulates the title opening sequence of all our favorite vintage action films and TV shows. You name it; Bond, Baywatch, … Continued
Creative director Karin Fong takes us through the process of creating a sensual title sequence in camera for action rom-com This Means War. Using projections on scantily clad women, Fong created a fitting homage to the classic Bond titles, whose swinging style was pioneered by the likes of Maurice Binder and Robert Brownjohn in the … Continued
From time to time, we like to get gritty with it here at Watch the Titles. Corp + Anam is a dark and disturbing Irish crime drama, whose strong themes are enforced by the squirm-worthy images that director Lorcan Finnegan used for his opening titles. Shot in Dublin in a day-and-a-half using DSLRs, Finnegan says … Continued
Turn your lights down low, and turn your volume up high because the end credit sequence of Snow White and the Huntsman is, by far, the darkest end credit sequence we ever featured. Combining high-speed phantom footage, elements from the film, CGI, and a custom designed font, The Mill L.A. created an intense and truly … Continued
The titles for the imaginary Ridley Scott movie based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel The Sirens of Titan embody the sci-fi themes perfectly. Light, space and the blending of realities have all been fused together in this delicate and dreamy student project by Dani Wolf and Tal Moskovich. “Every little dot of light is real … Continued
Under the canopy of imposingly large Western red cedar trees, fern branches shimmy in the breeze and softly cascading water glistens over a pebble lined streambed. Amongst the company of this lush and regal greenery, Nando Costa handles bright metallic and vivid fluorescent ceramic letters to spell out the names of keynote speakers at the … Continued
For the Amsterdam edition of the design and technology event FITC 2012, Dutch motion designers Floris Vos of Soulbase and Menno Fokma harnessed the storytelling potential of the opening title sequence to maximum effect. The designers created a short narrative to remind the viewer how tough it can be to create something, and how ultimately … Continued
French Fridays updates with Topkapi. Stylish, glamorous and tongue-in-cheek, Topkapi is the epitome of the European crime caper and more or less established the genre of the heist film. The object of desire is the famous dagger inlaid with emeralds from the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Title designer Jean Fouchet used colored acetate overlays coeated … Continued
Motion designers are imagining the 3-D interfaces of the future. For Iron Man 2, Prologue envisioned the stunning, holographic, 3-D interfaces that Tony Stark uses to engineer his technological devices. And who doesn’t recall the intuitive, spatial interface that Tom Cruise’s character works with in one of the defining scenes of Minority Report. And now … Continued
The quality of the title designs nominated for the SXSW Film Title Design Award this year is high. Twenty nominees were announced yesterday. Two more than last year. It’s going to be tough to pick a winner with so much talent represented. We noticed some new “faces” among several familiar ones among the nominees. For … Continued
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