2. Biography Karin Fong is a director and designer based in New York City. Fong studies art at Yale, with elements in Graphic Design. Fong created a animated alphabet book for her senior project, which then launched her career as becoming a animator on the WGBH television program. Karin is well known for designing the title sequences for Dead Man on Campus, Daredevil, The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio, The Mummy 3: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor and Terminator Salvation. Fong was nominated for 2 Emmy’s in 2008, winning one for her main title for the TV series Chuck.
4. DareDevil Analysis Immediately the mood of the title sequence is set because the use of colours is very dark which symbolizes evil and possibly death. The typography used is Braille because the DareDevil is blind in the film. This is clever and effective with the city lights becoming Braille because DareDevil cannot see, therefore he has to compensate for this throughout the film by using alternative senses. The building shown in the title sequence are dark and very blunt, again connotating evil. However there is one building that really catches your eye because it has very bright lights and may resemble something important in the film. Which we later find out in the film that it is the headquarters of the villain in the film KingPin. When the titles appear, the typography is placed onto a pitch black background which makes the typography really stand out and may show the importance of the cast and crew.
6. Terminator Salvation Analysis The typography used is very computer/technology like, in reference to what you see from the Terminators' POV because the terminator is a robot. The images behind the typography are very dark, gritty, concrete like and metallic which may represent the Terminator’s metal armour. The nice thing about working with McG [the director] on Terminator Salvation, which is sort of an origin story for the Terminator series, is that he asked us to develop not only the main titles but the language of "machine vision." "Machine vision", in the Terminator piece, is the point of view of the machines. So, everytime you see something through a machine's eyes, it's treated in that way. Back in the original Terminator these [images] would be tinted red and have a grid and have maybe some DOS language. We had to update that using technical references of today's machines and technology.”
