Our Idea.

"A title sequence is the method by which cinemoatic films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound. It usually follows but should not be confused wtith the opeing credits, which are generally nothing more than a series of superimposed text."

In my second group that Megan and I joined, along with Charlie and Sam we thought of the idea to do a social realist film: "The Decline" about a young "successfull" business man, with a loving family, and a beautiful wife, in the beging everything is fine, the man has a brilliant job with a big company in London earning lots of money, but because of the current climate the business goes bust. He looses everything. As well as almost loosing his home and his family, our film is about all of the obsticles that this young man has to overcome in order to pay his bills and keep his family happy, as well as finding the courage to tell his wife that he has lost his job and that he is in huge amounts of debt.

Title Sequencess...

At the begin of this year Megan and myself was in a group with another boy and we had a good idea for our title sequence for a horror/thriller film which defied the rules of a horror film, where the victim was a young boy and his friends who are murdered for their promiscuous behavior and alcohol abuse, who are then murdered by a brunette girl because of their behavior and the way that they treat girls. After we had drawn up story boards and filmed a pitch the boy in our group had then decided that he wanted to work alone, so then Megan and I was going to continue this as our title sequence but a girl from another group left the school leaving two boys to work on their own. We thought it would then be a good idea to join up with them. We decided to think of a new idea for out title sequence coursework.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was born in May 8, 1920, in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan until attending classes with Gyorgy Kepes at Brooklyn College. He began his time in Hollywood doing print work for film ads, until he collaborated with filmmaker Otto Preminger to design the film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones. Preminger was so impressed with Bass’s work that he asked him to produce the title sequence as well. This was when Bass first saw the opportunity to create something more than a title sequence, but to create something which would ultimately enhance the experience of the audience and contribute to the mood and the theme of the movie within the opening moments. Bass was one of the first to realize the creative potential of the opening and closing credits of a movie.