Boy, do I love a good 80’s comedy/thriller/mystery with Tim Curry! One of my favorite movies is Clue, and for my title design class I got to create the main title credits. The original motion picture does not really have title credits. Well, it does, but they are very basic; just text over the sky. I wanted to do something that was engaging and fun, but I didn’t know where to start. So I began with the master, Saul Bass. I started looking at his work, and I felt that a similar style could work with my project.

I began with a basic story, and flushed it out in boards.

After getting a solid idea of where I wanted to go with the story, I had to decide on the style. So I made some style frames with various looks. Below is an illustrator version, cinema 4D version, photographic version, and a scanned version.

I decided to go with the scanner version after a critique with my classmates. What is the scanner version, you might ask? Well, I print out the shapes in Illustrator, then I cut them with scissors, then I scan them back into the computer. This process gave me a very hand-done quality, similar to what I’ve seen in the work of Saul Bass. With this path set before me, I had lots of printing, cutting, and scanning in my future.