To create the sequence, Greenhaus worked with a crew from Beverly Hills Aerials to capture drone footage off the coast of Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, chosen to match the look of the film’s shooting location in Australia.
At the bottom of a cliff, in the half-light of evening, waves crash against rock, revealing the opening production credits, only visible thanks to the splash of the tide. From the first moments of the picture, when the massive letters of “Universal” rotate around the globe amid silence and an ominous rumbling, it’s all systems go on atmosphere. What’s remarkable here is what’s missing. Wells, studio Greenhaus GFX created a simple, spine-tingling title reveal. The resultant sequence is an exuberant march through time and space, a scrapbook pulsing with pain and pride.įor the opening of 2020's The Invisible Man, director and screenwriter Leigh Wannell’s retelling of the 1897 novel by H.G. Set to the rousing second verse of Black Thought & Salaam Remi's “Soundtrack to Confusion,” the titles are a bustling collage of documentary and archival footage, paste-up and stop-motion, and excerpts from Coates’s work.
Look closely and spot Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Richard Wright’s Native Son and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Director Kamilah Forbes urged an interplay between scenes of suffering and scenes of affection, beauty, and art, as well as the inclusion of more books. Coutinho drew inspiration from Coates’s books (the cover art for Between the World and Me makes an appearance along with work by painter Calida Garcia Rawles, who created the artwork for his 2019 novel The Water Dancer), as well as the texture of paper, layered and torn, and the watercolours of Molly Crabapple, whose illustrations appear in the film proper.
Produced by creative director Hazel Baird, art director Diego Coutinho and a team at studio Elastic, the special's opening titles set up Coates’s experiences growing up in inner-city Baltimore and explore issues surrounding Black life in the United States. So begins Between the World and Me, the HBO special based on the adaptation and staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s non-fiction book of the same name. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the most interesting and innovative work to hit screens this year.Īrt of the Title's Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020īrisk and brimming with energy. These title sequences were painstakingly animated, painted, composited, illustrated, torn and pasted, shot, performed and typeset by teams large and small all around the world, navigating a global pandemic, with budgets modest and mighty, over video calls, in state-of-the-art facilities and in home studios. The panel chose this year’s top titles from among film, television, video games, web series, events and conferences.
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The 2020 panel includes: Yussef Cole, motion graphic designer and writer Manija Emran, creative director and co-founder, Me & The Bootmaker Frank William Miller, Jr., design director, Matter Unlimited Robin Nishio, director and graphic artist Louise Sandhaus, graphic designer, educator and author plus Art of the Title’s founder Ian Albinson and Editor-in-Chief Lola Landekic.
Chosen by Art of the Title's panel of experts We reached out to our community to pull in new voices and to expand the team that calls the shots for the Top 10 Title Sequences of the Year. This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 title sequences, we’re doing something new. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new.
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