KS : Art of the Title: Carivale

http://www.artofthetitle.com/media/tv/2003/carnivale_credits_480p.html?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=526&width=882

I think this clip is really clever, we could use some of the animation elements but with a more thriller style twist. The zooms through the layered imagery really draw the audience into the piece, a very original opening with the cards laid across a surface the viewer is sucked into the past storylines creating a traditional authentic feel. I particularly like how the faces merge from dated to traditional society. For our opening we could try filming creepy heavily made up faces then with a dissolve transition merge them together. The music cleverly reinforces the old fashioned sense with traditional digetic sound. Although this opening is created solely from animation and the layering of imagery we could create a similar effect out of filmed faces, and re-enactments of issues in history. Also I like how the title is revealed by the cards being blown away by the wind to see it underneath whereas previous clips have used flashes of text.The clip made me think of an idea where we could have a series of still characters with little dialogue dressed as freaky carnival people, such as a doll, a bird woman, a giant and with dark lighting we could track between them with flashes of close up facial expressions of various emotions.