The Art of the Title Sequence

Apr 21, 2008

Carnivàle

What promises did our ancestors fulfill and what lunacy did they survive? What historic, phantasmagorical travels did they wheedle and render throughout? ...And in a breath we realize that reasons for exorcists exist within. German Expressionist-American newsreels and tarot currency pushing an otherworldly balance that is at once hyper real and not untrue. And you get to float through it all, like the pilot of the first zeppelin or the character in the head of young Bruegel the Elder.

CREDITS

Creative Director: Angus Wall
Lead Designer: Vonetta Taylor
Visual Effects Supervisors/Inferno Artists: Patrick Murphy, Simon Brewster
Music: Wendy Melovin, Lisa Coleman
Visual Effects Company: A52
Creative Director: Angus Wall
Lead Designer: Vonetta Taylor
Designers: Ryan Gibson, Jesse Monsour
3D Animators: Denis Gauthier, Westley Sarokin, Jeff Willette
Director of Photography: James Glennon
Original Artwork: Jimmy Yamasaki @ 88phases
Final Audio: Richard Davis
Executive Producers: Rick Hassen, Darcy Leslie Parsons
Senior Producer: Scott Boyajan
Colorists: Tim Masick @ Company 3, Dennis Cardamone @ Ascent Media, Tim Bono @ Bono Film & Video
Research: Absolutely Archives, Nickerson Research
Stock Imagery: Amistad Research Center, Art Resource, Corbis, Freer Gallery of Art, The Mary Evans Picture Library
Stock Footage: CMG Worldwide, FAST Images, Film Archive, Grinberg Images, John E. Allen (JEA), Inc., Streamline, UCLA Film & Television Archives
Production Company: Carnivale, HBO

Category: Elastic, News, TV

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  • Ivan

    I’ve recently started watching this series on DVD, and am enthralled by the title sequence. The analogy of the struggles of the Great Depression and the icons and mysteries of the Tarot deck are brilliant. I also love the 3-D effect they use as the camera zooms into some of the cards. Great stuff.

    But who’s this Ronald D. Moore guy?? ;)

    (That’s a little joke – I’m also a big fan of his more recent series, the revival of Battlestar Galactica)

  • lara

    Totally,
    Would almost be my title sequence of all time…

  • Lord Byron Quinn

    This intro remains the only t.v. show intro to ever hold a candle in my mind, and the Tarot Cards are some of the most powerful symbols EVER.mn Note the subtle Tower reference to religion and how it almost embodies evil in the introl. But the most powerful symbols of all in the intro remain the God and Devil, good vs evil! You cannot get more blantant than that, and their battlefield is even given. They show the world, people in a food line with misery abundant, than zooms out to show the ace of swords. This is the battleground, earth in misery.

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