After another assigned reading, I learn yet again that my newly "enlightened" self has overlooked something in the movies I thought I could fully analyze.
Titles and graphics were things I thought about briefly last year while watching Psycho and other Hitchcock movie titles. But every other time in my life up until this reading I hadn't thought about title sequences at all. A lot of work and conception goes into this work and it "remains essentially invisible to many contemporary viewers". Yep, that's me, young and ignorant of another form of art.
I wonder if I'd had a lengthy title sequence to work with in the past in my work, I'd have put more thought into it. Even in my documentary I wanted something low key.
Anyway, title sequences will be something I'm interested in researching further.
I'm glad this reading takes time to defend music videos also. I agree that whether they mean to or not, music videos mirror exactly what a large group of our youth want, fear, imagine, or covet. But on another scale they work to experiment and push the borders of the medium. I find those videos more enjoyable like Hardest Button to Button, than the recent videos I've seen on mtv 2 like Justin Bieber.
I'm excited to watch as many of the videos referenced in this article as I can find.
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