It's in the Titles

When I think about which videos that truly impress and inspire me, I think about TV title sequences.

So I finally finished compiling my list of the best Title Sequences and they are:

Live Video

• Six Feet Under by Digital Kitchen
• Dexter by Digital Kitchen
• True Blood by Digital Kitchen
• House by Digital Kitchen
• Rescue Me by Digital Kitchen
• The Pacific by Imaginary Forces
• Underbelly S2

Runners up include: Boardwalk Empire (Imaginary Forces), Damages (Bigstar), HBO Boxing (Digital Kitchen), Justified (Elastic), Misfits (MOMOCO), Nip Tuck (Digital Kitchen), Southland (Imaginary Forces), Tilt (Digital Kitchen) and Weeds (Thomas Cobb Group).

Animated

• Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
• Fringe by Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot
• Misfits by MOMOCO/Maguffin
• Rome by A52
• Rubicon by Imaginary Forces
• United States of Tara by Jamie Caliri
• The Walking Dead by Prologue Films

Runners up include: Brat Bratu (Armada), The Cape (The Picture Mill), Chuck (Imaginary Forces) Fringe (Red and Retro), The IT Crowd (Shynola) and Sanctuary (Pure).

As anyone can see, Digital Kitchen and Imaginary Forces feature heavily in my list.  I don't believe I'm being biased toward these companies, I believe they just happen to make the best sequences at this time.  And this is why I set the bar high in wishing to emulate the quality of such high quality work.

3rd Year & Object Porn

I've been thinking tonight about what really impresses me.

I believe I have a strong idea for my major but even though I have two relatively good ideas for my complimentary, I've realised tonight what I could do to really achieve my goal of making a piece of work that a company like DK would sit up and take notice of.

I've realised that the beauty in the truly impressive title sequences is not only the various aspects I've listed privately but it's also how they've shot inanimate objects... which leads me to my thought... object porn.  How to light an object, how to better take video of an object, both inside and outside objects.

Let's face it, it's what I've been doing with my jars, etc. anyway... maybe that's what my complimentary needs to focus on!  Now how to make it work...