Saul Bass

Today we looked at a Powerpoint about Saul Bass, a title sequence and movie poster creator with a specific style.

He made posters for Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder and Westside Story to name but a few (Images won't upload).

Bass also made title sequences for films such as Not With My Wife, You Don't!:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/not-with-my-wife-you-dont/

and The Man With The Golden Arm:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-man-with-the-golden-arm/

"Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). The subject of the film was a jazz musician's struggle to overcome his heroin addiction, a taboo subject in the mid-1950s."

"Bass decided to create an innovative title sequence to match the film's controversial subject. He chose the arm as the central image, as it is a strong image relating to heroin addiction. The titles featured an animated, white on black paper cut-out arm of a heroin addict." (info from Wikipedia).

His work is widely regarded as some of the best title sequence work ever created and many title sequence creators get their inspiration from his work.

We then went to create out own presentation on another title sequence creator; our group's person was Danny Yount:

http://prezi.com/euvlscyq--pp/danny-yount/