2.1

The opening animation for “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” struck me as visually pleasing at first. It uses a more traditional visual style reminiscent of the sixties.

The font that was chosen is a sans serif all caps font. Usually using a font in all caps makes me angry. In this case, not so much. The graphics that go along with the visuals are so captivating that in order to receive any attention, all caps is required.

Another major point about this sequence is that the animations from the title tell a part of the story to come. Not so much that it will ruin the movie, but just enough to please the person who has seen it and can recognize the different scenes only by watching the titles.

2.2

The film title that I find does not reflect successfully the movie it precedes is “eXistenZ”. For having seen the movie, I think that the speed and feel of the titles almost go against what is represented in the film.

The titles sequence is predominated with stains of a brownish tint and a boring slightly serifed font. After a while, the stains become fully fledged brown background with images that are not at all relevant. (i.e. A fish skeleton).

This movie is a sci-fi action movie. The boring brown background and font are not welcome. Should be shown : allusions to the eXistenZ game, concept art of the multiple places or strange objects depicted in the movie. But I’ll get to that in 2.3.

2.3

2.4

The movie title I chose that I found visually pleasing, but that did not fit so well with the movie is for Equilibrium. It has a fast paced and 2D animation style. Link after the break.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5XuAIe9bX18

This movie which I found excellent deals of serious subject matter within a society that has gone over the edge in seriouseness. Though it is vibrant in its two-tone animation style, the overly emphatic graphics break the overall feel of the movie if one has already seen it. And sets the wrong mood for any newcomer to the picture. I believe this title should be more calm than it currently is. Set the mood in a very solemn and posed manner rather than show it as an action movie with its posing gunmen.

2.5

The title sequence I worked on is not for a particular piece of media. It is actually for a band, namely Born of Osiris.
I wanted to convey the multiple layers of instrumentation in their music. I therefore chose to use a technique of 3D layering to represent this. The progresive, organic and evolving of their sound is represented by the evolution/spastic fade-in of the logo.

The animation is here.

More details will be added in the description on the real site.