Friday, 10 January 2014

Saul Bass





Saul Bass' title sequences for Alfred Hitchcock from MovieTitles on Vimeo.



A fiAn Infamous title sequence that uses the beautifully framed iconography of the eye is Vertigo which was bass's first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, in this he started to experiment with shot film with animated elements. The scene starts with a women’s face covering only half of the shot with the camera panning to her lips, then slowly up to her eye, while the screen turns red and the camera actually zooms seamlessly right into her eye, when colourful spirally animated graphical elements warp on the screen and then eventually the camera reverses and pulls back out of the eye again to frame back on the women’s eye. This was very innovative at the time, which is taken for granted now. Bass was inspired by the French mathematician Lissajous (of the 1800s) using his scientific pendulum device with ink to create the intricate spiralling shapes. 

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