Inspiration: B-Movie Title Design of the 1960s from Art of the Title

Art of the Title follows up their article on B-Movie Titles of the 40s and 50s...

With a range from Alfred Hitchcock to Russ Meyer, Art of the Title covers B-Movie Titles of the 1960s.

Read the full article here.

Inspiration: AMC's Halt and Catch Fire from Art of the Title

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Art of the Title: "Was there anything that took you by surprise when working on this sequence?."

Patrick Clair: "That anyone would ever allow me to put this mix of red and magenta on the air! I should have been stopped."

Art of the Title covers the creation of the title sequence for AMC's Halt and Catch Fire with the creative team responsible for creating what may be the most red ever crammed into one title sequence.

Inspiration: MacGruber from Art of the Title

Satire...humor...explosions...and a Saturday Night Live pedigree.  The film 'MacGruber' has it all.

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The Art of the Title has the low down on how a movie that is, according to one Universal studio staffer,  "...so much better than it should be" came to be...as well as its title sequence.

Check out the full story at the Art of the Title.

Inspiration: Art of the Title talks to David Fincher

David Fincher from Art of the Title

Art of the Title has an excellent article that looks at title sequences from the perspective of a director.

Actually, this article is from a very specific director's perspective...David Fincher.

The director of Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac and the Panic Room talks about what he prefers in his movies and what he's seen transpire in the realm of film title sequences in general in this conversation.

Check out the full article at Art of the Title.

Inspiration: 1940s and 50s B-Movie Titles from Art of the Title

B-Movie Titles at Art of the Title

A little weekend inspiration awaits in the form of an article from Art of the Title on the title sequences of the B-Movies of the 40s and 50s.

Those were the days.  When the movies had titles like "THEM!" and "Lady in the Death House", the imagery-spawned ideas were plentiful and the visual execution was certainly creative...at least within the context of the technology of the time, and the budgets of the genre.

So...head over to Art of the Title and check out the article...and watch out for crab monsters, teenage cave men, and "GOG"...whatever that is...

Inspiration: How they made the 'Archer Vice' Title Card

For the 5th season of FX Network's Archer, the show has taken a new direction that may seem familiar to those of us who lived through the heady days when television audiences could accept that a Miami cop would possess an Italian supercar as his "daily driver."

For the new 'Archer Vice' Title on the FX Network, the show's producers wanted to really make sure that they sufficiently communicated the series' new direction in the title card.

Read the article to get the complete rundown of how they constructed the effect in this perfect illustration of how titles are more than just text.

Inspiration: Art of the Title looks at Black Sails

Art of the Title takes a look at one of those title sequences that just seems to hit the right note in visual tone and sound...pacing and visual content...

Take a look at the title sequence from Black Sails and read Art of the Title's excellent article covering the concept and the creative process behind it.

See the article here.