Shawn Murphy
Well-known member
I'd like to hear some of your favorite titling examples, and especially any from the work our own dvxusers have posted.
Here are a couple of web sites that show some nice examples:
A bunch of stuff from Saul Bass:
http://www.notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php
A post house (click on the 'work' link):
http://evileyepictures.com/
I'm amazed at how much money big budget films spend on titles/credits, here's some comments from a 1997 filmmaker magazine article:
"You can definitely do interesting things for under $10,000," Bob Freemon of New York-based REI remarks of a typical low-end indie title budget. "You can experiment with font and text design, delay fades and dissolves of type, cut to multi-color background plates. What's important from our standpoint is for the filmmakers to learn the language of typography and opticals, so they can have a plan going in."
Freemon, whose recent work includes, Chasing Amy, Blackout, Walking and Talking, and Woody Allen's upcoming Deconstructing Harry, cites the upper range of an indie title budget as somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 “ enough to buy a smattering of digital animation, although nothing like the flashy graphics which grace studio main titles. But Freemon continues, "Tone is the most important thing in a main title sequence. My art director and at least one of our partners sit down and ask the director what the movie is about. Sometimes it becomes an education process; encouraging [the director] to start thinking title design early on, so they're not forced to go with white lettering on black when the money's all run out."
Granted Casino, and the scores of amazing main title sequences before or since -- Anatomy of a Murder, Vertigo, Seven, Portrait of a Lady, Blue Velvet to name just a few standouts -- had a lot more dollars to play with than most indie post budgets can swing. But in the world of main title design, even for micro-budgeted indie projects, money don't always make the man, as the saying goes, and a little creative brainstorming can go a long way.
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/fall1997/firstthingsfirst.php
Here are a couple of web sites that show some nice examples:
A bunch of stuff from Saul Bass:
http://www.notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php
A post house (click on the 'work' link):
http://evileyepictures.com/
I'm amazed at how much money big budget films spend on titles/credits, here's some comments from a 1997 filmmaker magazine article:
"You can definitely do interesting things for under $10,000," Bob Freemon of New York-based REI remarks of a typical low-end indie title budget. "You can experiment with font and text design, delay fades and dissolves of type, cut to multi-color background plates. What's important from our standpoint is for the filmmakers to learn the language of typography and opticals, so they can have a plan going in."
Freemon, whose recent work includes, Chasing Amy, Blackout, Walking and Talking, and Woody Allen's upcoming Deconstructing Harry, cites the upper range of an indie title budget as somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 “ enough to buy a smattering of digital animation, although nothing like the flashy graphics which grace studio main titles. But Freemon continues, "Tone is the most important thing in a main title sequence. My art director and at least one of our partners sit down and ask the director what the movie is about. Sometimes it becomes an education process; encouraging [the director] to start thinking title design early on, so they're not forced to go with white lettering on black when the money's all run out."
Granted Casino, and the scores of amazing main title sequences before or since -- Anatomy of a Murder, Vertigo, Seven, Portrait of a Lady, Blue Velvet to name just a few standouts -- had a lot more dollars to play with than most indie post budgets can swing. But in the world of main title design, even for micro-budgeted indie projects, money don't always make the man, as the saying goes, and a little creative brainstorming can go a long way.
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/fall1997/firstthingsfirst.php
