Title designer Unai Guerra: "During the shoot, the directors Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga were in Paris interviewing Lucio, when they asked him if he had kept any of the original material that he had used for his forgeries. He explained to them that he hadn’t - that when he had to escape from Spain, he had handed all his material over to an old friend of his who lived in an old farm house close to the border with the instructions to burn the evidence. Lucio thought that his friend had complied and destroyed the material, as it was heavily incriminating and could have sent him behind bars for a long time."

"Nevertheless, the directors located the farm and Lucio’s old friend who still lived there and asked him if he had kept any of the material that was given to him. To their surprise, he took the directors to his attic and showed them boxes filled with hundreds of pictures, reproductions of documents, photo negatives, printing plates, different kinds of papers - an endless amount of original material used by Lucio himself. When the directors called me to make the title sequence for them, they showed me this material. It was like a box filled with treats. I was able to scan the original material, retouch it, post produce it and bring it to life, which was a very pleasant experience for me."

"The idea was to start off with titles that would draw the spectator into the story from the very first frames of the film. I wanted the audience to think: "Wow! I’m going to see something different, not the typical boring documentary." I also wanted to create a link  between the titles and the images. By mixing all the elements at my disposal - scans of Lucio's original material, archive footage and computer generated images - we created a sense of authenticity from the very onset of the documentary."
 
Isn't it unusual for a documentary to have such an elaborate title sequence? I asked Guerra. "The documentary itself resembles a thriller. There are many reenactments of real events in the movie that generate tension in the story. That’s why a title sequence was chosen that looks like a sequence from a fiction film, rather than a documentary."

“From the first moment, I knew I wanted to become a computer artist-animator,” says title designer Unai Guerra, who studied fine arts at the Basque Country University. Before finishing his studies he was working as a motion graphic designer at the regional BasqueTelevision. Since then he's been working for several production houses as a graphic designer, a motion graphic designer and a post-producer. In 2004, he founded his own company with two colleagues. In 2006 he joined Irusoin. Lucio is his title sequence for a feature film.

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Film directors
Aitor Arregi & José María Goenaga

Art Director (titles)
Unai Guerra

Production Studio (titles)
Irusoin

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