RESEARCH: ART OF THE TITLE (SHERLOCK HOLMES)

In class today we watched the film opening to Sherlock Holmes. We watched the film opening on a website called ‘The Art of the Title.’ The opening sequence clearly establishes the period at which the film was set as it looks Victorian. I can tell this because you see sepia coloured tones that suggest Victorian photography processes. The titles are presented in hand writing in pen and ink wash. This creates lots of ink splats which creates background sounds. The splatters also give the title an old foxed look and styles, the still photography taken from the moving image film which then morphs into a pen and ink wash carries on in a cycle. The still photographs are frozen moments form the moving image, these are then stripped down into pen and ink wash drawings which re-animate into moving image and the process starts again.