Opening Credits - Woody Allen vs. Alfred Hitchcock
February 7th, 2008 by Erin
Most people can recognize a Woody Allen film by its opening credits. Allen is famous for using EF Windsor Elongated in all of his films - beginning with Annie Hall. There’s a great post about Allen’s credits and the story behind them over at kitblog.
Allen doesn’t change his font to suit the theme of his films, instead the credits are always the same. They are simple, white on black credits that are aesthetically neutral. Whether it’s a period piece (The Purple Rose of Cairo) or a contemporary drama (Crimes and Misdemeanors), Allen always uses the same font. It’s his trademark.
Hitchcock on the other hand used his opening title sequence to tell the viewers what the film is about. He worked with the brilliant title-designer Saul Bass.
The credits created by Saul Bass (often accompanied by a musical score composed by Bernard Herrmann) were short films in and of themselves.
Here’s the opening credit sequence to Vertigo:
In my next post, I’m going to talk about the opening credits on my film and how both Allen and Hitchcock played a role in the choices we had to make.
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March 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am
[…] Mucho se habla de los títulos de crédito de las películas de Alfred Hitchcock, en especial de aquellos realizados por el gran Saul Bass con la banda sonora de Bernard Herrman, que en el fondo no dejaban de ser pequeñas películas. O recordando, también me viene a la cabeza los títulos de crédito de las películas de James Bond. Dicho esto, otro cineasta al que es fácil reconocer sus películas por sus títulos de crédito es Woody Allen. Cada vez que vemos en pantalla unas letras blancas sobre fondo negro y música de jazz sonando de fondo, sabemos que estamos ante una de sus películas. ¿Realizó estos desde sus primeras obras? ¿Empleó la misma tipografía de letra? La respuesta está en una muy curiosa historia. […]
March 30th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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