Research into Opening Sequence Designs

Kyle Cooper's interviews

The two part interview with acclaimed title designer, art director and film maker Kyle Cooper, taught me what is important to consider when creating an opening sequence for a film. Kyle Cooper has had great success, producing title sequences for the spider man movies, Superman, and many others. During the interview, he discussed the importance of dub tailing seamlessly from the opening sequence, into the film. He also said that the sequence must create a expectation of the film itself, a tool to try and integrate is to use the type in order to create the overall tone of the film that you are trying to generate. Typography should link to the genre of story that you are trying to tell, try and use clever puns when you can-this will interest the viewer. Be influential in your title sequence, Kyle Cooper advised, as it can help pursue the viewers ambitions. Remember the importance, significance of your sequence and remember the different range of viewers.



Another piece of advice granted by this title designer is to not feel that you have to rely on using CGI. Investigate and see what you hand make-money and time can can be saved while creating just as clever images. I learnt of Cooper’s favourite sequences are those that encapsulate the characters obsessions, a example of this was ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. Typography came up as a important issue again, along with the music. Typography used should be integrated rather than appearing to be a after thought, when including it, always consider the shot in the background which will influence the positioning and movement of the text.


Finally, I learnt that you should use the time granted within the title sequence to advance the plot of the film. Tell a backing story which will overall manipulate the viewers viewing as a whole.


The findings of these interviews will influence my group with our production of a opening sequence. The production will be influenced as we will consider every aspect Kyle Cooper discussed, such as the importance of typography and the way it is displayed, to try and engage the audience by integrating characters obsessions so early on.