3. How the title sequence came together.
• Gareth Smith and his wife Jenny Lee created the title sequence
together.
• They went over to Vancouver to get what they needed for the title
sequence whilst the film was being shot.
• They wondered around the city and it’s neighbourhoods to
photograph elements and locations that would work for the title
sequence.
• When they started to shoot the title sequence with Juno (Ellen
Page) they used a green screen and a treadmill to get the walking
shots.
4. Why it’s good to develop the idea for the
title sequence before the film is shot.
• An advantage of this is that Gareth and Jenny were able to request a
shot from a live action production team that would “elegantly” get
them into the animated world.
• And this turned out to be….
• Juno would walk behind a tall vertical object and on one side it
would be live action and then on the other side it would be animated.
• Jason Reitman (the director) shot a dolly shot (the camera follows
the movement) of Juno walking through a neighbourhood, then
behind a large tree.
• The next slide shows what the final shot looks like….
5.
6. Titles
• The final style of the titles were “graphic, simple and
contemporary”.
• Most of the illustrations were based on the location photographs
Gareth and Jenny captured whilst in Vancouver.
• The type of text font used for the titles was inspiration from when
they used to doodle in their books from when they were at school.
• Jenny also created the end credits for the film and she called that
type of font “Kaylee” after her niece.
