2. Saul Bass
Saul Bass was a graphic designer and one of the
master of title sequence designers. In addition, Bass
crated a new type of kinetic typography.
Kinetic typography is animation technique mixing
motion and text to hint ideas using videos
animation. This a techniques Saul Bass used for all
his title sequence which a reason in why he is know
for the ‘God father’ of title sequence.
Not only was Saul Bass known for his title sequence
he also created logos and film posters for company
such as Frontier airliner.
For his film posters he changed the view of film
posters by instead of visuals of the film , he used his
technique to simplified, symbolic designs that
visually communicated key essential elements of
the film such as the ‘Golden Arm’
3. PSYCHO TITLE SEQUENCE
Psycho was a one of Saul Bass most famous title
sequence. Firstly , the music is from a orchestra
band and starts off with a fast pace violins and
gradually other instruments get involved and
build up the tension as the pace of the music
increase as the sequence goes on. The fast pace
of the music links in to the horror genre of the film.
Horror creates suspense and tension throughout
for the build up before something tragic happens
in the film. Therefor the music in the film title
sequence creates the same feeling so links in
perfectly with the genre.
4. Pyscho Title Sequence
The title ‘Pyscho’ means crazy and insane.
Through the title sequence, Bass has tried
to include this meaning through out by
lines start rapidly cut across the screen in
all angles like crazy. Shapes such as the
lines , is something Bass uses through a lot
of his work , it’s a simple shape but
however creates a lot of meaning
through the way he uses them.
5. Psycho Title Sequence
In addition, the way Bass tries to show the
‘Craziness’ of the definition Psycho
through when the film title comes up itself.
It starts of with the name looking perfect
, then the white lines that make up the
title start moving in all in different
directions and rotate in different way
looking crazy and confusing linking into
the name.