At Switch Interactive, we art directed and designed the main titles for Fido. Director Andrew Currie wanted something reminiscent of 1950′s melodramas a la Douglas Sirk. Sadly, the distributors decided to cut the opening title sequence for the theatrical release, but they will appear on the DVD.
Fido
Eve and The Fire Horse
Main title design for a independent Canadian feature film.
Eve and the Fire Horse was directed by Julia Kwan. We not only designed this title sequence but the IDs for the three production companies who produced the film: Red Storm Productions, Holiday Pictures, and Firelight CineMa (sic).
Watch it here
Circle of Willis
Main title design for an online comedy series.
Severed
At Switch Interactive, we designed the main titles for Severed, an independent feature directed by Carl Bessai.
The Corporation
Animation and background braphics for a feature documentary by Mark Achbar.
The Multiverse and the Haircut
Title design for a short film by Daniel Fraser
Weapons
The Weapons of Mass Distraction series is a set of five promotional videos
that focus on the relationship between media and the audience.
Session 1: Glamour explores the artifice of advertising.
Session 2: Mass compares television and nuclear weapons.
Session 3: Gaze revisits Jon Berger’s woman watching herself being looked at.
Session 4: Spectacle was based on Guy Debord’s seminal book.
Session 5: Uprising is currently in production.
Weapons: Session 1: Glamour
Glamour explores the artifice of the advertising industry. Currently unavailable for viewing due to legal issues.
Weapons: Session 2: Mass
Mass compares television and nuclear weapons, loosely based on the prologue to Niel Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Weapons: Session 3: Gaze
Gaze revisits Jon Berger’s woman watching herself being looked at.
Weapons: Session 4: Spectacle
Spectacle was based on Guy Debord‘s seminal book, The Society of the Spectacle.
Weapons: Session 5: Uprising
Uprising is currently in production.
Emile
Treatments, storyboards, and motion tests for main title design for Emile, an independent feature film by Carl Bessai.
Lily’s Crickets
Title design for Like Minded Media’s Lily’s Crickets, a short film about the struggle between traditional and more progressive thinking.
I was also an extra in the film.
Canadian Zombie
Title design for a short film by Julian Clarke.
Details and credits after the jump. Watch it here.
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