Title Sequences

                            Title Sequences

Juno  

      Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

    Sequence Designer: Gareth Smith &     Jenny Lee

    Year of release: 2007

“Love it or hate it, Juno has become a cult classic since its release back in 2007. The opening titles perfectly set the scene of teenage innocence and instantly depict Ellen Page as the main character. As she walks through her home town, designers Gareth and Jenny use a mixture of 2D and 3D animation along with hand-drawn illustrations. The song 'All I Want is You' by Barry Louis Polisar finishes off the title sequence perfectly, as Ellen Page effortlessly glides into live action.”

We looked at this film’s title sequence as the film has a similar target audience to ours. It aims at attracting teenagers, mainly females, with the use of its fun title sequences that presents a partial reality and partial fantasy with its cartoon, yet realistic shots of the main character walking through her home town.

 

My Sister's Keeper

Client: New Line Cinema / Warner Bros.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Imaginary Forces Director: Ahmet Ahmet

“To achieve the look of the footage, as if seen directly from a memory, we used a Super 8mm camera to capture the images, and laid them against the backdrop of a blank journal.
Originally intended to include more stills than footage, various experimental environments and shooting at various frame rates allowed the Super 8mm footage to become the dominant aspect of the overall design. By pushing the limits of the Super 8mm camera, a look was developed that required little to no post effects for clean up or color.”

“The filmmakers encouraged a non-linear editorial approach, which presented the challenge of taking the conventional, nostalgic quality of home movies and counter it with abstract visuals of birth and death.”

Not only did we use this film as our initial film inspiration, but also the title sequences have a strong relation to what we aspire to use in our project. The scenes of the characters shown as though growing up throughout their lives in format of a memory, video or photographs is a beautiful way to set out the film and the relationships between the characters within it. We plan to use this to highlight the relationship of the two sisters, Hope and Ruby. Mainly we plan to use photo’s to do this, with the background noise of the sisters reading a story together.

 

Nim's Island 

Client: Walden Media
Director: Mark Levin and Jennifer Flacket

“Anything can happen on "Nim's Island," a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. Imaginary Forces uses a paper cut-out style animation to bring the characters to life in this playful title sequence.”

This title sequence inspired us to look at creating a short story of the characters before the film begins. Nim’s Island does this by presenting shots of characters or scenes in the film in a playful, fun manor. These title sequences are fun to watch and can make the audience intrigued to watch the rest of the film. Furthermore, this film beholds a similar story line to ours, showing a young girl struggle and journey to help a loved one. In this film it is her father who is lost at sea, in our film it is to help make her ill sister feel better.