It's not all Hollywood here at Forget the Film, Watch the Titles. From time to time we like to feature a main title that was created on a very small budget. The Blue Horse is an independently produced Dutch thriller. Its main title is slightly reminiscent of Stephen Frankfurt’s opening title sequence for “To Kill A Mockingbird”, but only in the sense that it's a table top shoot and the title is revealed by a child drawing with a crayon.

The title of the movie refers to a key scene in the movie in which the father tells his daughter to erase the blue horse that she drew, because "blue horses don't exist."

Unfortunately, the rather peculiar score –which bears a strong resemblance to new age synth music of the 1990s– seems to be completely at odds with the visual poetics of this main title. Could it be that the director –who composed the music himself– was aiming for this particular offbeat effect?

Maik Hagens is a visual artist and designer whose work often incorporates animation techniques. He also gives animation workshops.

more about Eugene Arts and Maik Hagens

Full credits

Concept, camera and editing
Eugene Arts and Maik Hagens

Title design and logo
Eugene Arts

Sound
Roald van der Laan / Deliberate Jeopardization

Film director
Roald van der Laan

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Comments (2):

13 Jan 10 • by: steve
I have tried several browsers, and I cannot get your movies to play in any of them. Too bad, your site looks interesting.

1 Apr 10 • by: Remco
The bug has been fixed a few weeks ago.