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You know what they say about first impressions...
Title sequences can be engaging or wildly entertaining, funny, exhilarating, or simply drop dead beautiful. They can be oozing with visual poetry and sophisticated imagery while others hit you hard with their bold and audacious stylistic gestures. And let's face it, everybody loves a good title sequence.
The very best title sequences not only succeed in putting the audience in the right mood for the movie, they transcend their proper function and venture off into the realm of something far deeper and far greater. They are the signifiers of contemporary pop culture and an art form in their own right. Just look at the impact of, for example, Kyle Cooper's title sequence for Se7en that has left an indelible mark, not just on film and motion design, but on contemporary visual culture as a whole.
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles launched in 2006 and was the world's first online resource dedicated to film title design.
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Spin-off projects
SubmarineChannel produces a series of Watch the Titles spin-off projects in the 'real world', often in collaboration with other parties:
Watch the Titles on Tour - A one-hour screening program made for cinema's. This program features a selection of the very best title sequences made between 2005-2010. Structed into moods, the program represents a growing body of talent from all over the world, and includes title sequences of movies, TV, games and events. The tour started in The Netherlands in Fall of 2010 and will continue to screen at selected international events in 2011.
Flux screening series: Forget the Film, Watch the Titles - presentations by Kyle Cooper, Garson Yu, Jamie Caliri, Karin Fong and Danny Yount (2009).
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles at MU - an month-long exhibition featuring over 30 title sequences and an event (2009-2010).
Short Ride in a Fast Machine - a presentation by title designer Danny Yount from Prologue and a screening program at SubmarineChannel's one-day festival in Amsterdam (2007).
Cinema.nl - a monthly post on this comprehensive Dutch online film resource.
About SubmarineChannel
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles is a SubmarineChannel project. SubmarineChannel is a hybrid media production studio based in Amsterdam. We create fresh content that exploits new technologies to tell stories from the real and the fantastical, in visually exciting, multiple format-friendly ways. We make motion comics, online games, web documentaries, and video portraits about pioneering creatives from all over the world. And we blog / tweet / shout about all that is good in the realm of next-gen cinema. A selection of our projects:
SubmarineChannel Blog - reports on digital culture and the moving image
2Pause - a growing collection of the coolest music videos
Collapsus - An interactive online experience about a group of ten young people caught up in an energy conspiracy
MiniMovies - documentaries for the web and mobile platforms
Pretty Cool People Interviews - video interviews with creators
Submarine
SubmarineChannel is closely related to Submarine - an Amsterdam-based cross-media production company that specializes in documentaries, games and animation.
