Who Is Saul Bass
saul bass is a american graphic designer and a award winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences film posters, and logos.During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including alfred hitchcock otto pregmigner,billy wilder, stanley kubrick and martin scorses . Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's the man with the golden arm.
towards the end of his career biss was "rediscovered" by james L Brooks and Martin Scorsese.
towards the end of his career biss was "rediscovered" by james L Brooks and Martin Scorsese.
the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest,
and the disjointed text that races together and apart in phsyco
Bass once described his main goal for his title sequences as being to ‘’try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story” and influencing his title sequences was the goal of getting the audience to see familiar parts of their world in an unfamiliar way. Examples of this or what he described as “making the ordinary extraordinary”
in the 1960s, Bass was asked by directors and producers to produce not only title sequences for their films, but also to visualize and storyboard key scenes and sequences within them. Bass has the unusual credit of “visual consultant” on five films- spartacus (1960), Grand Prix (1966), West Side Story (1961), Psycho (1960).
Bass introduced the idea of using a montage of fast cuts and tight framing to render a violent, bloody murder as an impressionistic and nearly bloodless one.
Bass introduced the idea of using a montage of fast cuts and tight framing to render a violent, bloody murder as an impressionistic and nearly bloodless one.