CF: Personal research on opening sequences (Saul Bass)

• Amongst my research when generally viewing openings to notorious thriller-themed films, I came upon the name Saul Bass on a number of occasions, this led me to further looking into his work, from which I found a lot of inspiration for our sequence, Saul Bass is an acclaimed opening-sequence creator.
• He worked on the very fore front of the pioneering of the thriller film, working with such directors such as Alfred Hitchcock who it thought by most film fanatics to be the creator of the thriller film, he also worked with other famed directors like Scorsese and Wilder.
•  His first big title sequence came from "The man with the golden arm" (Preminger, 1955), the movie featured a heroin addict trying to beat his addiction while trying to make it as a jazz musician, from this and looking at his other work, I could infer that thriller movies are rarely/never about supernatural or famous people, but normal beings in normal lives, which the audience can relate to, this creates a sense of realism and amplifies the suspense, which is a large part of the thriller movie experience.
• From this title sequence which is made up of animation, very little or nothing is given to the audience in terms of the mystery (with mystery being a common theme in "thriller" films), here, animation is the method used to prevent the audience from solving any of the mystery, where as in films such as "Seven" (1995, Fincher), camera techniques are used to keep the mystery as mystery, by not showing any very distinguishable features of what appears to be the culprit.
• One thing that we can take away from this research, is the idea of possibly using more than one median, although a form of animation/cartoon work may be hard for us to successfully 'pull-off' on a low-budget project, however, we could possibly incorporate other medians, an example of this, would be the idea of using newspaper clippings with our names in for the openings credits.