Art of the film title research

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

"The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, circa 1929, features both Mickey and Minnie, but its main title, “Plane Crazy,” is lackluster"

- I found this interesting as the Mickey Mouse cartoon is very famous yet I had no idea Walt Disney had an influence of the film title history. The comic book themed title sequence could be put into consideration for our group's title sequence as our film is significant to writing and perhaps drawing in a diary.

"The concept of score visualization first conceived by Oskar Fischinger in his film “Studies” anticipates the effects created by Saul Bass in “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955) and later by Susan Bradley in “Monsters, Inc” (2001)"

- Disney were seen as an influence to the change of the title sequence. Yet in 2001 Disney took the influence from Saul Bass from 1955 to use in the title sequence of "Monsters Inc" which was a successful film of Disney.

"Maurice Binder worked on the title designs of 14 films about Agent 007, including the first episode, “Dr. No” (1962)"

- In my mind I have always thought that James Bond film’s title sequences are one of the most popular title sequences in the world. It was interesting to see that Maurice Binder created more than one of the film’s title sequences. Reading this makes me want to look into some of Binder’s work.

"The revolutionary title sequence f

or “Se7en” (1995) by Kyle Cooper was named by New York Times Magazine as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s”

- I have previously looked at the title sequence for Se7en and found it influential myself, it was hardly unbelievable that the title sequence was awarded by a popular magazines in America. When researching Se7en online it seems to be one of the most respected and praised title sequences of the 90s. New York Times magazine don’t seem to have a niche opinion to the sequence

"The title sequence for the 2009 adaptation of the comic book “Watchmen” drew a loud response from the public."

- It is interesting to read about the start of title sequences being done in a comic book style in the 1920s and now it is still taking influence towards recent films today. Watchman have used a comic book style yet used features of a modern title sequence using live action. This could be a huge influence to my title sequence and has made me realise that I could use more than one style to my sequence rather than the same style throughout the whole 2 minutes. I feel as if the method Watchman have used is visually interesting for the audience, it grabs their attention to make them excited for the whole movie and gives them high expectations of it.