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You know what they say about first impressions...
Title sequences can be engaging or wildly entertaining, funny, exhilarating, or simply drop dead beautiful. They can be oozing with visual poetry and sophisticated imagery while others hit you hard with their bold and audacious stylistic gestures. And let's face it, everybody loves a good title sequence.
The very best title sequences not only succeed in putting the audience in the right mood for the movie, they transcend their proper function and venture off into the realm of something far deeper and far greater. They are the signifiers of contemporary pop culture and an art form in their own right. Just look at the impact of, for example, Kyle Cooper's title sequence for Se7en that has left an indelible mark, not just on film and motion design, but on contemporary visual culture as a whole.
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles was one of the first online resource dedicated to film title design.
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Spin-off projects
Besides this website, SubmarineChannel produces a series of related spin-off projects in the 'real world', often in collaboration with other parties:
Flux screening series: Forget the Film, Watch the Titles ft presentations by Kyle Cooper and four other great L.A.-based title designers.
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles at MU - exhibition featuring over 30 title sequences and an event.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine - SubmarineChannel's 1 day festival in Amsterdam in 2007 included a presentation by title designer Danny Yount from Prologue and a screening program.
Cinema.nl - our monthly guest page on the comprehensive Dutch online film resource.
In 2010, we will launch a screening program for cinemas which will tour in 11 cities in The Netherlands.
About SubmarineChannel
SubmarineChannel is a non-profit production and online distribution platform for filmmmakers, designers and interactive artists. SubmarineChannel was founded in 2001. We produces original short format content for the web, and we curate a series of web projects. A selection:
Projects
New: 2Pause - a growing collection of 100+ of the coolest music videos
SubmarineChannel Blog - reports on digital culture and the moving image
MiniMovies - documentaries for the web and mobile platforms
Pretty Cool People Interviews - video interviews with creators
Hotel - interactive animation series by Han Hoogerbrugge
Chunks - collecton of short digital films and animations
Submarine
SubmarineChannel is part of Submarine - an Amsterdam-based cross-media production company that specializes in documentaries, games and animation.
Projects
Kika and Bob - animation series and games for children, art director: Fons Schiedon
Dutch Design Profiles - short documentaries about high profile Dutch designers
Naked - award-winning rotoscope docu-animation series about puberty
Another Perfect World - documentary about online virtual worlds.
