Media Presentation

1. Richard Morrison-
Graphic Designer
By Luke Robinson
Yr3

2. Richard Morrison is arguably the world’s leading film titles designer.
In a career spanning three decades, he has created over 150
featured film title sequences for many of the industry’s most
respected film directors and producers.
Richard Began his career with Maurice Binder on the bond series.
Over the course of 30 years, he has become the most prolific
British film titles designer.
His credits span Hollywood blockbusters such as Batman, Enemy
at the Gates, A Fish called Wanda and a passage to India to cult
classics like Brazil, Sweeney Todd, and Quadrophenia for directors
as varied as Sir David Lean, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Frears
to Jean-Jacques Annuad, Ridley Scott and Tim Burton.

3. Morrison is a highly respected author, graphic designer and lecturer.
Since 2002, he has been Chairman of Europe’s leading film and
animation conference pencil to pixel and in 2009 he was appointed
Honorary Professor of Digital Film School of Media Arts and Imaging at
the University of Dundee, Scotland.

4. Sweeney Todd
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/10/mo
rrison-on-morrison/

5. Sweeney Todd
• The cast and crew appear in descending order of importance for
actors, starting from Johnny Depp, and the film creators appear in
ascending order of importance starting from music coordinators and
so on.

6. Morrison said “What I enjoyed most was coming up with the whole idea.
I did not have to pitch to Tim but I turned this project into an internal
pitch at th1ng. And so, a few days later, I had a room plenty of some
truly outstanding creative work. I took it all to Tim and he just spread
them all over the floor and spent around a day or two looking through
them”. And then he said: I really like this narrative piece (mine) and
those coloured frames (Shay Hamias, director).
Animating blood and its movement became the most crucial and
challenging element of the sequence. We had to build special platforms
within which we imitated blood movement and filmed it. And we had to
give it this comical feel, which worked really well. That was a dream
project. We would love to work on something similar."
Sweeney Todd

7. Vantage Point
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/10/mo
rrison-on-morrison/

8. Vantage Point
• There is no cast and crew in the opening title so we are left in the
dark which might make us think that the film is going to be dark and
mysterious.

9. Vantage Point
• Morrison said "It is an elegant piece. I liked the idea of random
elements coming together before our very eyes, and I thought it
would be very clever to use the red laser-dot as a motif. It
immediately introduced the theme of assassination and threat. Also,
I think that the dark-gold palette of these images strikes a chord with
the filters used later to film Salamanca—there was this smooth
transition between the titles and the first scenes shot from the
helicopter. The sequence had to be based around the idea of
perspectives. So I graphically tried to create a web of intrigue to give
viewers an accurate insight into what they can expect in the movie."