Forget the Film, Watch the Titles - The Blue Horse title sequence

Forget the Film, Watch the Titles - The Blue Horse title sequence

Here is an opening title of a movie of the blue horse film. This is a cheap form of making an opening title without hiring actors. In this video we see a hand drawing with a blue chalk on the paper. The video clip starts with an extreme close up of a chalk line with the name of the production house appearing on the left hand side. Than we see the chalk moving on a white paper with the names of the cast appearing. There are still shots taken of a person drawing. There is non diegetic music which is slow and soothing and we can also hear the diegetic sound of the faint scraping of the crayon and paper. In the first few seconds when basic shapes and lines were being drawn, the name of the actors appeared on the screen. In the next scene we see the same hand drawing on the black paper and this time coloring the shapes and adding more details to the sketch. The crayon used was again blue but this time two to three shades of blue were used.

The names appearing this time were of the crew members. On every name one letter appears handwritten with a crayon. The background sound that is heard is a slow track which creates an intense mood. also there are few dramatic stings in the soundtrack.

At the end the title of the movie appears. This time the whole name of the movie appears handwritten with blue crayon and the name of the movie  “blue horse” is written on a black background and the H is shaped like a horse facing front. The title is not situated in the middle of the screen but moved slightly to the bottom left.

This seemed like a typical opening title of a movie. This title was cleverly done with only a crayon and a paper yet it gave an impression of being the opening to a complex movie. what I liked about this title was that with only a few props and transitions a very effective opening title was made. This was a 1:49 minute opening title with only music in the background and nothing more interesting happening besides a close-up of a hand drawing.