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American Horror Story: Murder House is the first season of the FX television series American Horror Story.
- American Horror Story was created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The season centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a stillbirth and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants. The series drew consistently high ratings for the FX network, ending its first season as the biggest new cable series of the year
Kyle Cooper and his company Prologue created the opening title sequence. He also created the title sequence for the AMC series The Walking Dead and the 1995 film Se7en. Sound designer Cesar Davila-Irizarry and musician Charlie Clouser composed the theme music. The sequence is set in the Harmons' basement and includes images of post-mortem young children, unborn (or aborted) babies in jars, skulls, a Christening dress, a nurse's uniform, and a figure holding a pair of bloody hedge clippers. Murphy described the sequence as a mini-mystery and stated that "By the time you see the ninth episode of this season, every image in that title sequence will be explained".
Asylum:
The same creative team does the second season’s opening sequence. "We are shooting a new title sequence with the same team that did last year's", series creator Ryan Murphy, said. "The song may stay...not sure. “ The song was kept, and the new title sequence was set around the Asylum, utilising shots of inmates raving and surgeons operating on patients with bandages obscuring their faces. Elements include a young girl walking backwards on her hands and feet up a staircase and a shot of the Virgin Mary's smile changing from one of benevolence to one of spite.
Coven:
The third season's opening sequence keeps the same song, and this sequence is the first one to be filmed primarily outside and not in an enclosed location. Shots include figures wearing black robes and capirotes, a bony-skeleton creature with wings and shots of dead goats, the Minotaur from the season also appears. For the first time, there are actual backgrounds that appear with the actor names instead of an all-black background, some of these images include witches hanging and Santa Muerte. Other elements include an African Tribesman with a disturbing smile as well as voodoo dolls. The final shot continues after the figures in black capirotes seize one of their own who is later seen burning at a stake where young, dress-clad witches dance around.
- American Horror Story was created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The season centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a stillbirth and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants. The series drew consistently high ratings for the FX network, ending its first season as the biggest new cable series of the year
Kyle Cooper and his company Prologue created the opening title sequence. He also created the title sequence for the AMC series The Walking Dead and the 1995 film Se7en. Sound designer Cesar Davila-Irizarry and musician Charlie Clouser composed the theme music. The sequence is set in the Harmons' basement and includes images of post-mortem young children, unborn (or aborted) babies in jars, skulls, a Christening dress, a nurse's uniform, and a figure holding a pair of bloody hedge clippers. Murphy described the sequence as a mini-mystery and stated that "By the time you see the ninth episode of this season, every image in that title sequence will be explained".
Asylum:
The same creative team does the second season’s opening sequence. "We are shooting a new title sequence with the same team that did last year's", series creator Ryan Murphy, said. "The song may stay...not sure. “ The song was kept, and the new title sequence was set around the Asylum, utilising shots of inmates raving and surgeons operating on patients with bandages obscuring their faces. Elements include a young girl walking backwards on her hands and feet up a staircase and a shot of the Virgin Mary's smile changing from one of benevolence to one of spite.
Coven:
The third season's opening sequence keeps the same song, and this sequence is the first one to be filmed primarily outside and not in an enclosed location. Shots include figures wearing black robes and capirotes, a bony-skeleton creature with wings and shots of dead goats, the Minotaur from the season also appears. For the first time, there are actual backgrounds that appear with the actor names instead of an all-black background, some of these images include witches hanging and Santa Muerte. Other elements include an African Tribesman with a disturbing smile as well as voodoo dolls. The final shot continues after the figures in black capirotes seize one of their own who is later seen burning at a stake where young, dress-clad witches dance around.
The latest brainchild of writer/director Alan Ball (American Beauty and “Six Feet Under”), “True Blood” premiered on HBO in September. Conceived and completed by creative studio Digital Kitchen, the show's opening title sequence shows chaos and a mixing of different cultures, races and social strata, where whores and churchgoers commingle in a region with many influences and a town of many characters and mindsets.
It’s a world where the conflicting ecstasies of religion, sex and bloodlust share striking similarities.
It’s a world where the conflicting ecstasies of religion, sex and bloodlust share striking similarities.
The AMC drama Breaking Bad uses the trope of chemical symbols for the credits in its title sequence, as well as otherwise enigmatic references to the chemical formula for crystal meth, the substance that is at the heart of the show's morally ambiguous narrative intensity. Breaking Bad remains one of the best shows on television in part because it flaunts contemporary sheepishness about dealing with taboo subjects such as potentially sympathetic drug manufacturing and use.
Creating a visual metaphor that tells a sweeping story while capturing the feel of a particularly tumultuous time in history in just minutes is no easy task. But Imaginary Forces bills itself as a creative agency that likes a good challenge. Time after time they have proven how adept they are at constructing narrative titles and other sequences for film and broadcast, including Minority Report,Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Mad Men.
So, when asked, they took the job of creating main titles for HBO's epic series Boardwalk Empire. Using footage they shot of the actor Steve Buscemi at the beach; a lot of whiskey bottles; and visual effects created in Cinema 4D, Maya and After Effects, they designed and produced a sequence that illuminates the show's central themes. It also makes clear that Buscemi's character, Nucky Thompson, rules the boardwalk in tumultuous, prohibition-era Atlantic City just after World War I.
So, when asked, they took the job of creating main titles for HBO's epic series Boardwalk Empire. Using footage they shot of the actor Steve Buscemi at the beach; a lot of whiskey bottles; and visual effects created in Cinema 4D, Maya and After Effects, they designed and produced a sequence that illuminates the show's central themes. It also makes clear that Buscemi's character, Nucky Thompson, rules the boardwalk in tumultuous, prohibition-era Atlantic City just after World War I.
A fiery astrolabe orbits high above a world not our own; its massive Cardanic structure sinuously coursing around a burning center, vividly recounting an unfamiliar history through a series of heraldic tableaus emblazoned upon it. An intricate map is brought into focus, as if viewed through some colossal looking glass by an unseen custodian. Cities and towns rise from the terrain, their mechanical growth driven by the gears of politics and the cogs of war.
From the spires of King’s Landing and the godswood of Winterfell, to the frozen heights of The Wall and windy plains across the Narrow Sea, Elastic’s thunderous cartographic flight through the Seven Kingdoms offers the uninitiated a sweeping education in all things Game of Thrones.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design
From the spires of King’s Landing and the godswood of Winterfell, to the frozen heights of The Wall and windy plains across the Narrow Sea, Elastic’s thunderous cartographic flight through the Seven Kingdoms offers the uninitiated a sweeping education in all things Game of Thrones.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design