Watch the Titles

Forget the Film, Watch the Titles! is a project dedicated to the art of title design and its creators. Launched in 2006, the recently renewed website features a growing collection of over 200 title sequences and behind-the-scenes content, offering a unique glimpse into the people, ideas and processes behind their creation. A fantastic USP is the ongoing series of short documentaries about the world’s leading title designers. Some things I learned and saw was that 1. Many title sequences are designed to be strictly informative and present the cast and crew. Others are created to give the audience a taste of what’s to come. But some transcend their proper function to become landmarks of popular culture and cultural symbols of their time. For example, Saul Bass’ Anatomy of a Murder, Iginio Lardani’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and Kyle Cooper’s title sequence for Se7en have all left a mark on culture as a whole. I saw on this website how, unlike art of the titles, they organized and categorized the work they had better and more efficiently. This website included TV shows and had a section where you could watch and research just TV shows instead of movies. It also had sections for feature films, student projects, video games, event titles, and french fridays. Just like art of the studios this website also included sections to look for designers and studios and also ad a search. I did however find the same issue with this website as the last and that was that it had no organization of genres. I couldn't look at specifically horror or specifically thriller. The inclusion of the search bar does help but for someone like me who isn't fully familiar with movies, movie names, and genres movies fall into it is a little difficult.