A fast-paced, energetic yet dark title sequence by French designer Kook Ewo.

In an interview for the French website Générique Cinema about the making of the title sequence, Ewo says: "During the preparations of the shooting of Silent Hill, I told the director, Christophe Gans about my plans to start Scripted-Reality, a company whose spearhead would be film credits. His reaction was positive and a few days later he sent me the first version of the script. I started to get seriously interested in the world of Silent Hill, its creators, its influences... I then submitted ten short written proposals for the opening credits."

"The concept that I proposed was simple: a subjective camera moves 'Silent-Hillish,' in which one passes the creatures of the film and photographs of the actors, torn, pinned... All that in a pop/rock music video style. To sell the idea, I rendered the thirty first seconds of the credits with After Effects, based on the idea that my principal constraint (the impossibility of modeling complicated 3-D objects in After Effects) was going to push me to find solutions similar to those used by the designers of the game. On a visual level, I took inspiration from the Silent Hill 2 game and from pictures of abandoned hospitals that I found on the net."

Born in 1979, Kook Ewo is a Paris-based title designer and director, who first came to prominence with his work on Silent Hill. He has since started directing commercials, shorts movies including Sept. and Black Night is Falling. Ewo's main titles include Splice, Fracture and Solomon Kane. Ewo is a teacher at Goblins School of the Image (Paris' school of Visual Arts) in the Motion Design section. In 2011, Ewo co-founded Motion + Design, a fascinating initiative to found the world's first physical center for motion design.

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Full credits

Director (film)
Christophe Gans

Title designer
Kook Ewo, Scripted Reality

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