{"id":972,"date":"2012-01-30T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/01\/30\/check-out-this-motionographer-interview-about-the-creation-of-the-opening-titles-for-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:14:00","slug":"check-out-this-motionographer-interview-about-the-creation-of-the-opening-titles-for-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/01\/30\/check-out-this-motionographer-interview-about-the-creation-of-the-opening-titles-for-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out this Motionographer interview about the creation of the opening titles for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Title Sequence by Blur<\/a> from Motionographer<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out this great Motionographer article\/interview<\/a> with Blur Studio<\/a> where they discuss the creation of the opening titles for David Fincher<\/a>‘s the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blur Talks: \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u201d Titles<\/span> (Posted by Motionographer Staff)<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t seen Blur\u2019s<\/a> opening titles for David Fincher\u2019s rendition of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>, now would be a good time to climb out from under your rock and check them out (above).<\/p>\n

In addition to listing the top-billed talent in a film, the role of a good opening credit sequence is to mentally prep the audience for the ensuing film. In that regard, Blur\u2019s titles are an exemplary specimen \u2014 perhaps the best from 2011. When the final frame flickers past, your heart rate will have doubled and your pupils will have fully dilated. Consider yourself ready.<\/p>\n

Blur\u2019s Tim Miller was kind enough to give us some background on the titles and share some making-of videos with us. Make sure to read on past the jump for all the goodies.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t typically think of Blur as a designer of film title sequences, but it seems you guys are making a push to be regarded as much for your design chops as for your animation skills. Is that a fair assumption? What\u2019s the plan? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve always had an inhouse design group, it\u2019s just not a large as the animation\/FX side. So we\u2019ve always been in the game. As for movie titles, I would say this was more a project of opportunity than part of some uber-plan. We\u2019ve done other projects with Fincher in the past, and we have several on-going film development projects with him. For what David had in mind for this title, we were just a natural fit.<\/p>\n

But with that said we would<\/em> like to capitalize on the work. We enjoyed the process, and we like to mix it up and do different styles of work. So hopefully there will be other opportunities for us like this. It\u2019s nice to do something that doesn\u2019t have a big explosion, aliens or gunfire for a change. Though, of course, we love all that stuff!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Excerpted from Motionographer<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See the rest of the interview, including some additional videos here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Title Sequence by Blur from Motionographer on Vimeo. Check out this great Motionographer article\/interview with Blur Studio where they discuss the creation of the opening titles for David Fincher‘s the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Blur Talks: \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u201d Titles (Posted by Motionographer Staff) If you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[324,378,383,385],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-special-effects","tag-video-art","tag-video-projects","tag-vimeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}