Digital Media Productions
Gyo
Motion Graphics
TRi-1 - 2024 - MOD009754
’The Art of the Title’
"Get Rich or Die Tryin'"
What is a title sequence?
A title sequence, sometimes referred to as an opening sequence or intro, is how films and TV shows use sound and moving conceptual images to introduce their title, main cast members, and production. It usually contains the opening credits' language which helps in establishing the story's subtext, setting, and tone. It is nearly usually created by motion graphic designers and may include animation, music, still images, and moving graphics.
Examples of title sequences:
Severance (2022)
"Severance" is a 2022 Apple TV show whose main character, Mark Scout played by Adam Scott, is a man who has surgically split his personal and professional lives. The title sequence features these selves, referred to as "outies" and "innies," stumbling through very empty corporate hallways and cold parking lots.
They become stuck in doppelgängers, melt through walls and furniture, melt into a sludge, and are drawn up through a syringe. The disturbing 3D animation was created by Berlin-based computer graphics artist Latta, whose work often depicts the human body through squeezing, squishing, multiplying, stretching, and slicing.
Hello Tomorrow! (2023)
Inspired by the "Dream of Tomorrow," the title sequence of "Hello Tomorrow!" tells the story of inventions. Starting with the most fundamental modern conveniences, we are taken on an intriguing tour of gadgets that are fundamentally unbalanced.
It makes you uneasy because it displays a different level of technical advancement than the one we live in now and depicts the perfect American escape in what appears to be a showroom filled with robots and technologies.
DE SADE (1969)
The horse then turns into a man bowed down on his knees which then burns on a fire that then turns into multiple women. The color red showcases the female gender whilst the black conveys the male gender or an idea, this can be observed in the scene where there a nude woman created using the color red.
The title sequence for DESADE it's very minimalistic yet complex with only the color red and black and white as the shades and highlights. The black and red turns and creates certain animals wether a dolphin, a horse and humans at one point; most likely got picked because they're all mammals. Which in the end they create a kneeled horse.