Opening Sequence Designers

There are many famous opening sequence designers, however not many are as good as Saul Bass and Kyle Cooper. They have covered a range of famous title sequences between them, like Vertigo, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Se7en, Psycho and North BY Northwest.


Saul Bass described his main goal for his title sequences as being to ‘’try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story”. He wanted the audience to see familiar parts of their world in an unfamiliar way, he called it  “making the ordinary extraordinary”. Examples of this image that he wanted to portray can be seen in Walk On The Wild Side, where an ordinary cat becomes a mysterious prowling predator. All modern opening title sequences that introduce the mood or theme of a film can be seen as a legacy of Saul Bass's work. In particular, though, title sequences for some recent movies and television series, especially those whose setting is during the 1960s, that have purposely copied the animated sequences from that era. Some examples of title sequences that relate to Bass’s graphics and animated title sequences are Catch Me If You Can and X-Men:First Class.

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