Week 4 Assignment 2 Homework:
Catch Me If You Can: Okay so this week I got to choose one out of the two title designs I had to review and it was whatever I wanted so I selected Catch Me If You Can. I love this movie and all though it has been awhile since I’ve seen the movie it has one of the better title designs that I have ever seen. I love how the type is incorporated into the “scenery” of the storyline. It moves and grows with the action taking place on screen. Its a brief preview of whats to come….and its pulled off wonderfully I don’t see anything that needs to be changed. The music selection works well with the storyline of the movie it starts out slow and works its way into a faster pace. The rhythm of the title elements is perfectly in-sink with the music. I really like how the type grows and moves with the action providing scenery and props for the characters running about. The shapes are relatively simple and work well with the type selection. The size relation of the type and the 2D characters varies throughout the title sequence and creates a strong sense of depth to an otherwise flat illustration. An example of the type working with the characters….well two examples actually:
1) Is the part where the protagonist is running from the detective in a business suit and in the foreground are two typist. The credits move up out of the typewriters as they type in time with the music.
2)The series of over head lights towards the end: the type forms parts of the lights and pulleys that the protagonist jumps around on to avoid capture.
The title sequence is provided below:
Vertigo: The next title sequence selection is Vertigo. I like Alfred Hitchcock movies but I’ve never seen this one. I thought it was a bit funny that James Stewart’s name was placed just below the woman’s nose which made it look like a mustache. The title emerging from the eye was rather creepy. Interesting use of tinting by starting out with black and white and moving to a red just before the title emerges. The opening sequence definitely held true to the theme of the movie, although the spinning objects reminded me of spin art or those geometric graph patterns that a friend created for me one time. I can’t say whether the title sequence lent itself to the movie’s theme (cause I haven’t seen it) or not other than the obvious spinning cliche for the word vertigo. The use of the spin art/geometry graphic forms was over used. I understand for that time the effects available were a bit limited but another than effectively creating the uneasy, off-centered feeling for someone that has experienced vertigo it wasn’t all that creative for an opening sequence. It didn’t really tell me that much about what the movie will be about so I found that very disappointing. But it may have been what he wanted to accomplish with it. I’m not really sure.
The movie intro is provided below:
