Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker and he is known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.

In this opening of "The man with the golden Arms" it is shown that saul bass has the creativity to apply the credits different to any other opening of a film to make it unique and stand out. For example making four straight lines and placing the credits to fit in between the little box shape created (picture 1). I also thought that saul bass' designs were quite simple yet they kept me drawn towards it to keep looking at it for example the use of lines the way they kept moving and the writing would change place on the screen to fit around the lines and it will still look good. (picture 2). A final moment i liked in this was when the lines got into a picture and it looked a bit like a claw shape figure which shows saul bass is trying to use pictures and different designs to try and keep the audience attached. (picture 3)

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The next video i looked at was called the "Anatomy of a murder" and straight away within the first second i was very impressed with how the title was presented on top of body parts because that gives the viewers a taste of what genre it could possibly be without seeing any characters or any dialouge being spoken. (picture 1). I like the way that the theme of using the body parts carried on throught out the whole credits because again it keeps the views attatched making them want to watch it because it is unique from any other film because normally people do not watch the credits but here you want to look because of the different use of pictures (picture 2). I thought it was good when the hands and the legs were being chopped up into peices because it made me question what the storyline was because it is quite obvious it is some kind of a thriller/horror but then this gave me an idea of what it might actually be about (murdering someone and maybe chopping up there body parts?) (picture 3)

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The final video i looked at was from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". I thought it was interesting how they would say the persons name and then it would become all strambled because when you read the title of the movie it makes you think about the mental element of someone, and how it must be a bit twisted which is metaphorically shown in the "scrambling" of the names.