Research into a Title Sequence

Designer: Richard Morrison

By Beatrice Fatusin
 Who is Richard Morrison?
• Richard Morrison is one of the world’s most principal
title sequence designers of the film industry. He has
created over 150 title sequences in his career across
three decades. He has created title sequences for some
of the industry’s most influential film producers and
directors. He started his career on the Bond series
with Maurice Binder. Richard Morrison is one of
Britain most prominent film title sequence designers.
Richard Morrison’s Work…
• Richard Morrison has been involved in in the tile
sequence of some of films most famous films. For
example ‘Batman’, The ‘Golden Compass’ and
‘Sweeney Todd’. Sweeney Todd is a 2007 musical
film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaption of
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony
Award- winning 1979 musical. It re-tells the
Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd , an
English barber who murders his customers with a
straight razor.
 Interview with Richard Morrison
• He talks concerning his profession being
a title sequence designer:
“I’ve evolved more now
to consider the story, or a set of events in the background, that will
link you into the film, so the whole thing becomes like a seamless
link,” he explains. “You’ve got a typical opening sequence, which
is three-and-half minutes of blank space, so you might as well fill it
with something creative. When the lights go down, before it even
starts and people are rustling around with their popcorn, they’re not
really paying attention, so you need to grab their attention within
three minutes, or even a minute. A lot of people I’ve asked have said,
‘It’s great because we can almost judge if we are going to stay with
the film based on those first three minutes.”