Saul Bass was a very famous title sequence designer, he was born in 1920 and then died in 1996 as the age of 75. Bass' was known for his use of simple geometric shapes and their symbolism often as a single dominant image stands alone to deliver a powerful message.He also had an amazing ability to capture the filnms tone and mood using these simple images , this was instead of using a boring image of a film star.Bass' studied at the art students league in new york, after apprentiships he worked as a free lance graphic designer or commercial artist/graphic designer, Bass' then went on to open his very own studio.
Otto Preminger invited him to design the poster for his movie " Carmen Jones" Preminger' was so impressed with the result of the poster he then asked him to design the title sequence for it.
Saul Bass designed title sequences for films such as;
- Carmen Jones, 1954
- Vertigo, 1958
- Anatomy of a murder , 1959
- North by Northwest, 1959
- Psycho, 1960
- West side story, 1960
- Bunny lake is missing, 1965
- Cape fear , 1991.
Saul Bass makes the genre of the film very clear during his design's of the title sequence but also makes the characters seem very mysterious and sly as he uses block colours and bold shapes and sillohettes.
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