Work By Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker best known for his design on animated motion pictures. During his 40 year career he worked for some of Hollywoods most famous film makers and produced titles for many famous films including West Side Story and Psycho.
After looking at a selection of Saul Bass' work, we concluded that his work seemed to be far to edgy and of a completely different style from what we wanted to achieve. Unfortunately we felt his work was to abstract and complex to follow, whereas we were hoping to show simple hint of what would be happening throughout the rest of the film.

The particular film titles we looked at were from the film Carmen Jones. We liked the black background with the writing over the top which was similar to our own titles but then felt although it looked arty and effective with the red colour and drawing of rose running through Saul Bass' title we felt it was an unnecessary feature that would complicate our titles.