Credit Where Credits Are Due
By EMILY OBERMAN AND BONNIE SIEGLER Published: February 21, 2009 New York Times There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the title sequences. Titles, though, have always...
View ArticleCatch Me If You Can, Auto Focus, Far From Heaven and the Art of Retro Title...
Catch Me If You Can, Auto Focus, Far From Heaven and the Art of Retro Title Sequences by Deborah Allison Source: sensesofcinema.com Deborah Allison is based in the UK and has recently completed a PhD...
View ArticleThe Power of Opening Credits
BAFTA-nominated titles designers Nic Benns and Miki Kato of Momoco take us behind the the art of creating eye-catching opening credits....
View ArticleNovelty title sequences and self-reflexivity in classical Hollywood cinema
by Deborah Allison http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/20/novelty-title-sequences.html There were things that could be done with film, it was crazy not to do them. title designer Wayne...
View ArticleDeath of the Title Sequence
Benjamin Wright via aspectratio.wordpress.com Since my return from Philadelphia I’ve been listening to Film Score Monthly’s groundbreaking release of the music of Superman. The FSM “Blue Box” contains...
View ArticleSaul Bass: A Film Title Pioneer
by Noell Wolfgram Evans A night at the movies once went like this: you’d arrive at the theatre, see a short subject, a cartoon, a smaller (B) movie and then the main feature would dance across the...
View ArticleOvertures and psychotic symphonies
Via eyemagazine.com Title sequences of the 1950s and ’60s grabbed moviegoers with psychological insights, orchestral violence and some lessons learnt from the early pioneers of animation, for whom...
View ArticleBass Resonance
By Joseph Tabbi Was Saul Bass a writer? Was he a poet? Given that his film title ‘texts’ are not ‘his’ – not his compositions in the accepted sense, what is his art and how can it be seen as a writer’s...
View ArticleForgotten Bass
Everyone loves Saul Bass. It’s a deserved love. He’s a design giant and designers pay the respect due. But even those amongst us who don’t get hot under the collar for fonts and logo treatments love...
View ArticleTaking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 4 Abstracting the Essence
via https://www.typotheque.com Part four of ten of Emily King’s dissertation for the V&A/RCA M.A. Course in the History of Design. The dissertation focuses on the relationship between graphic...
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