I found this great website that features a number of different title sequences and includes interviews with the design team or a few lines on the process and techniques they used. Click here to check out what I've been looking through for the past week and really studying.
1) I have been thinking about this for going on a week now and I don't want to create something that mimics an existing video. Although I have drawn certain inspirations from title sequences that are out right now, I ultimately want something that I can say is mine. An early idea was to show advertisements out in their natural environment, print, billboards, TV spots, posters. A hand would grab for them at which time they would turn to rough sketches of the existing ad. The hand would then slam them on the desk and write the name of the course on the rough. I want the feeling to be very intimate as you see this hand write out each letter like the intro to "Almost Famous" below.
With the focus on the hand you really get a sense of creativity, that each piece of advertisement was created from the same hand. It presents the creative process in a backwards manner.
2) Another idea I had was to give each class its own personality. Since I've taken most of the courses in the sequence, I know a bit about what the common conception are about them. For example, P1 is known as the weed-out class, and P2 is where ideas go to die. The pace of the video will be much slower, with the harmonica intro of the song below serving as the soundtrack. The part of the track I want to use is 1:25 seconds long which is perfect for keeping me within a specific time frame and not going too long on the video.
3) Lastly, I have a passion for drawing; and in the Texas Creative sequence it's a skill that doesn't hurt to possess. Here are the opening credits to "American Splendor." I like the comic book feel of the video and how the videos interact with their sketched counter-parts. In this option I will be manipulating videos to look more like the sharpie roughs that are essential to the Texas Creative sequence. It will be a lot more 2-D animation heavy as I try to make these roughs come to life.
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