Chandramukhi, which roughly translates to “moon-faced beauty”, is a Tamil movie directed by Vasudevan Peethambharan in 2005. It is about a woman named Ganga who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). Her alter, or other personality is Chandramukhi who is a dancer hellbent on taking revenge on the king Vettaiyan. I chose this movie because…
Sivaji is a Tamil movie directed by Shankar Shanmugam in 2007. This movie features famous actor Rajinikanth, and the title sequence was created by Soundarya Rajinikanth. I chose this project because I listened to a lot of songs from this movie and I felt nostalgic. The movie is about a wealthy software engineer who tries…
The title sequence of Delicatessen, beginning with the credits, presents the viewer with the name of the film slamming down with the chop of a butcher’s knife. The bold letters are masked over butcher paper, insinuating meat underneath. Through the darkness of this title card, we see a pig suspended by chains swing in and…
The western genre was one of the most popular genres in the 1900s. Movies, books, television shows, games, and other forms of media were capitalizing on the western lifestyle. The most recognizable image in the genre is the cowboy. The cowboy is the most important aspect of any frontier piece of media. When one thinks…
Dan Friedman had his postgraduate education split between too very different graphic design schools, Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm and Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel.[1] Ulm was a high modernist institution while Basel was more intuitive and exuberant.[2] While teaching at Yale, Friedman used his knowledge of the two extremes of design to help formulate projects for his…
North by Northwest is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock about an advertising executive in New York City who is mistaken to be a government agent and has to outrun foreign spies. However, the star of this movie was the famous introduction, designed by Saul Bass in 1959. This experimental sequence is often cited as…
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) is about a rich billionaire who orchestrates a bank robbery and the love affair that transpires between himself and the female detective that is trying to charge him for the crime. I will attempt to keep my discussion and analysis in order of appearance during the sequence and separate the…
This project by Saul Bass is the title sequence to the movie North by Northwest. It was designed in 1959 when the movie came out. It was created for the director of the movie Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was an important director at the time, directing movies like North by Northwest, Vertigo (which Saul also…
This project by Saul Bass is the poster for the movie The Shining. It was created for the workers and cast on the film. It was created in 1978, where he created five different designs. Although you might believe that this was easy and that everyone loved Saul Bass’s work, many of his designs for…
When looking at movies we often are perplexed by the opening scene of the movie. The opening scene helps to flow us viewers into the movie, and allow us to get a better view of how the movie may be like. The movie who’s title sequence I chose to analyze was, Fight Club (1999). This…
Opening title sequences are one of the most important parts of a movie or television show because it hooks the watcher in and makes sure you continue to watch. If a television show or movie doesn’t have an entertaining or nice to look at title sequence not many individuals are going to want to keep…
Asian Americans have been presented in a variety of manners over the past several decades – from bookworms who obsess over their grades, luxury-brand obsessed business moguls, to submissive individuals who are often pushed to the background, Asian-Americans face heavy stereotypes that have become relevant in mainstream media. Despite the array of interpretations, many fail…
From the start of immigration up until now, there have been a various mass media of cliche tropes expressed across multiple mediums for Asian women. The portrayal of Asian Women in the past has made them out to be shy, submissive, and distressed, serving to a male dominant. In recent movies within the past few…
Sin City (2005) is a neo-noir crime thriller created and directed by Frank Miller. The film is based heavily on the graphic novel, Sin City (1991), which was also illustrated by Miller and perfectly demonstrates his ability to create dynamic and intense layouts with dark comic art. The mood of the novel is captured so…