Foreshadowing/Summary/Montage: Mission Impossible, James Bond
Montage/Mood-Setting: Seven
Stand-Alone Pieces: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Game of Thrones
Integrating into First Scene: Fight Club
Single Take: The Classics, The Individual, The Long Take
Single Take Continued: POV, (inanimate object POV – Lord of War)
Contrast in Style to the Film: Monsters Inc. (also score visualization), Catch Me If You Can, Juno, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World, 
Thematic: Thank You For Smoking, Godfather of Harlem (won best titles emmy), The Politician
Symbolic/Satire/Parody: American Psycho; Dexter
Transparent titles over first scene: The Shining, Dr. Strangelove
Titles integrated into objects in film: Napolean Dynomite, Panic Room, Wes Anderson, Zombieland, Atlanta, Legion, Umbrella Academy
Character Introduction: Grand Prix, Royal Tenenbaums
Type-focused: Saul Bass titles, Spring Breakers, Stranger Things, Alien, Goodfellas
Consistent and prior to film: Woody Allen movies

Professional Sources

* A Brief History of Title Design
Visit Art of the Title
Emmy Nominations 2021
SXSW Title Design Finalists 2021
Visit Forget the Film, Watch the Titles | Interviews
Visit Movie Titles Stills Collection
Visit my YouTube playlist
*The Art of Film and TV Title Design
A History of The Title Sequence

Designers:
Saul & Elaine Bass Titles montage | *The Look of Saul Bass
Pablo Ferro: Titles montage
James Bond: 50 years of Main Title Design
David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective
Behind the Scenes of Catch Me if You Can
Behind the Scenes of Seven

post on Slack #finalproject channel

1. Inspiration: Link to 3 examples of Title Sequences that inspire you. Label why you chose the different examples and describe what approach you think they took to set up the film or tv show. 

2. Choice & Synopsis: Choose film or tv show and provide short written synopsis

3. Initial Brainstorm: Answer the following:

• What genre is the production?
• What are moods, themes, or symbolism you want to communicate?
• Who is your audience? 
• What feelings do you want your audience to have?
• What keyword associations come to mind? 
• What visuals come to mind to represent the film or tv show?
• What are different narrative and conceptual approaches you could take?

Watch these two short videos to get more background on title design:

• The Art of Film and TV Title Design
• The Look of Saul Bass