2. 0 Karin Fong is based in New York and Los
Angeles. She is a director and designer who
began her career with an art degree. Fong
has created many title sequences for films.
Her work has earned her four nominations
and an Emmy for main title design. Karin’s
work is combined with live action, design,
and animation. By the Fast Company
magazine she has been named one of the
top 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Karin has worked in the Cooper Hewitt
National Design Museum, Artists Space, and
The Wexner Center, as well as in numerous
publications on film and design. Karin is
currently on the faculty at the Yale School of
Art where she teaches in the MFA program
design for films and videos. She started her
career in becoming an animator by creating
an animated alphabet book for her senior
project which had then launched on the
WGBH Television Program.
Biography
3. • Dead man on campus (1998)
• 102 Dalmatians(2000)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Hellboy (2004)
• Ray (2004)
• The prizewinner of defiance, Ohio
(2005)
• The Mummy III: Tomb of the dragon
emperor (2008)
• The pink panther 2 (2009)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• God of war III (2010)
• Magic trip (2011)
• This means war (2012)
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6. Karin Fong’s quotes
0 “I’m always looking for different and surprising and
memorable ways for things to transition, or for you to
take the viewer on a journey, I think surprise is a
wonderful tool”
0 "Title sequences interested me from the beginning
and had a part in luring me to RGA/LA, where I was
hired by Kyle Cooper,"
7. The title sequence begins with glass breaking and a cartoon security guard or inspector
falling through the glass, the music then kicks in and lets the audience know immediately
which film there watching with the iconic pink panther theme song playing, the inspector
then takes out a magnifying glass to show he is looking for clues probably about a crime.
The sequence then focuses the attention on a pink diamond in the middle of the room
from where the title of the film appears as well as the main character. This then tells the
audience that this maybe what the film could be about as the rest of the title sequence is
about the pink panther stealing this diamond and then flees from the museum with
inspector chasing him across Europe and also the rest of the world, we can see this
from the map they fall onto and then the landmarks he is chased past. Throughout being
chased the names of everyone who helped create the film was being revealed one by
one.
8. As soon as the title sequence starts the audience hears the music straight
away, it is quite upbeat but depressing at the same time. The first few titles
appear on a black background in white writing which then fades backwards to
the next one, until pictures of tests flash up and then a gun shot, the title then
appears and fades out. It then goes into more pictures of exam papers which
fade in and out.
As the exam papers are fading in and out, images of how to kill people or
yourself come in which give the audience massive hints on what the film could
be about but also the title can also be a hint on the film. On most of the images
there are names of the people who have helped to make the film alongside the
questions and where it shows how to kill. The title sequence then finishes on
who the film is directed by next to a man who has been hung.
9. Comparisons between
the two……
The main comparisons between the two are
that in both title sequences Karin Fong try's to
hint and show her audiences what each film is
about using images of things and telling a
story in her own way, also in both title
sequences she uses music quite heavily to set
an atmosphere within the title sequence.
