White Heat - title sequence

Title sequence project done for school - of a 1949 film noir movie called "white heat" - originally starring James Cagney

no original cast names were used - instead a re-imagined cast was selected

materials: 256 white crayola crayons, 112 extra ounces of paraffin wax

tools: pancake griddle, large "nondescript" metal sign, heat gun, 8mm camera, stage light, Adobe After Effects CS3, Mac Pro

song: "Redrum" (from Tom Waits album, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)

cost: circa 75 dollars, 2 burns, 3 blown fuses

side note: on the planned one shot take - one of the 8mm tapes crinkled as it recorded - loosing half of the footage, resulting in the need to recast the lost names and reshoot the lost footage

best method: the wax hardened quickly enough by using the freezer - pull out of the shells at 20 to 21 minutes

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• White
• Heat
• Film
• Noir
• Crayola
• Melting
• paraffin
• wax
• Adobe
• After
• Effects
• Title
• Sequence
• Black
• handmade
• Tom
• Waits
• Redrum
• school
• letter
• casting
• WB
• time
• remapping