Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema with Title Designer Kyle Cooper

1/26/13

UPDATE: KYLE COOPER IS UNABLE TO APPEAR DUE TO ILLNESS. SE7EN WILL SCREEN AT 9 PM. Kyle Cooper, who has designed openers for over 150 movies, including Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Iron Man II, takes us behind-the-scenes of title sequence design. Cooper's talk is followed by a screening of David Fincher's 1995 film Se7en, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman; its critically acclaimed opening sequence revolutionized the field of title design and established Cooper as a leading practitioner.

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Behind the Scenes: Kyle Cooper on Title Design, followed by Se7en
Saturday, January 26 8 pm
UPDATE: KYLE COOPER IS UNABLE TO APPEAR DUE TO ILLNESS. SE7EN WILL SCREEN AT 9 PM. Kyle Cooper focuses on the kinetic mastery of the opening sequence as he takes us behind-the-scenes of title design with an illustrated talk followed by a Q&A with the audience. A complete screening of Se7en, starring Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman, follows.
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Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema with Title Designer Kyle Cooper

1/26/13

UPDATE: KYLE COOPER IS UNABLE TO APPEAR DUE TO ILLNESS. SE7EN WILL SCREEN AT 9 PM.

Text over a neutral background was the conventional opening for a film. Perhaps a specialized font or ornamental graphic might enliven the film's title, only to be followed closely by additional cards listing the cast and crew. These opening credits were passive announcements of what was to come, but they did little to stimulate an audience response or establish the impending narrative. All that was to change in the mid-fifties with the introduction of the title sequence, a sophisticated minimontage of dynamic images and mobile text pioneered by such designers as Saul Bass and, later, Maurice Binder. A direct successor to those frothy founders, Kyle Cooper entered the field in the mid-nineties and literally shook things up. His startling title sequence for David Fincher's Se7en, with its jittery text lingering over suspect details of...

UPDATE: KYLE COOPER IS UNABLE TO APPEAR DUE TO ILLNESS. SE7EN WILL SCREEN AT 9 PM.

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Behind the Scenes is a collaboration between BAM/PFA and the San Francisco Film Society. Major support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. The program is also made possible in part by the continued contributions of the BAM/PFA Trustees.

Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema with Title Designer Kyle Cooper

1/26/13

Past Films

Behind the Scenes: Kyle Cooper on Title Design, followed by Se7en