True Detective
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Creative Director PATRICK CLAIR details the creation of the title sequence for us.
PC: The project was produced by the wonderful and talented Jennifer Sofio Hall at Elastic and directed by myself through our studio Antibody. The team at Antibody in Sydney, led by Senior Designer Raoul Marks and with compositing and animation support from the good folk at Breeder, based in Brisbane, completed the design and animation phase. It was a truly transnational production.
When we were initially briefed, Nic Pizzolatta, the showrunner, and Cary Fukunaga, the director, spoke a lot about how the landscape and setting of the show revealed the characters and reflected their internal struggles. The show is set in Louisiana in the ÔÇÖ90s, with a strong presence of the petrochemical infrastructure and the pollution of the physical landscape. We read scripts for the first three episodes before even considering the visual execution. Story is always the most fundamental part of our design process, so it was great getting a good understanding of the writing before we began to explore visual ideas.
Visually, we were inspired by photographic double exposures. Fragmented portraits, created by using human figures as windows into partial landscapes, served as a great way to show characters that are marginalised or internally divided. It made sense for the titles to feature portraits of the lead characters built out the place they lived. This became a graphic way of doing what the show does in the drama: reveal character through location.
Creative Director PATRICK CLAIR details the creation of the title sequence for us.
PC: The project was produced by the wonderful and talented Jennifer Sofio Hall at Elastic and directed by myself through our studio Antibody. The team at Antibody in Sydney, led by Senior Designer Raoul Marks and with compositing and animation support from the good folk at Breeder, based in Brisbane, completed the design and animation phase. It was a truly transnational production.
When we were initially briefed, Nic Pizzolatta, the showrunner, and Cary Fukunaga, the director, spoke a lot about how the landscape and setting of the show revealed the characters and reflected their internal struggles. The show is set in Louisiana in the ÔÇÖ90s, with a strong presence of the petrochemical infrastructure and the pollution of the physical landscape. We read scripts for the first three episodes before even considering the visual execution. Story is always the most fundamental part of our design process, so it was great getting a good understanding of the writing before we began to explore visual ideas.
Visually, we were inspired by photographic double exposures. Fragmented portraits, created by using human figures as windows into partial landscapes, served as a great way to show characters that are marginalised or internally divided. It made sense for the titles to feature portraits of the lead characters built out the place they lived. This became a graphic way of doing what the show does in the drama: reveal character through location.
white_tea said:I think Harvey's right you guys. People talking about the show in the True Detective thread? Needs to stop!
Anyone with any theories on the quantity on tampons that Det Hart was buying?
Clearly he's a huge fan of The King of New York
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Anyone with any theories on the quantity on tampons that Det Hart was buying?
Clearly he's a huge fan of The King of New York
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I dunno if it was deliberate humor on the part of MM, but it was amusing to me how MM let a little Wooderson flashback/slipout occur in terms of vocal tone and gestures in speaking on how Cohle dealt with Cohle 's flashbacks...."Ya juust gotta roll with it"
Haha. Yeah. I think lawnmower man is involved for sure, but there's obviously more to it. The preview for next week still has me confused. So much more to come.
Controller_7 said:Haha. Yeah. I think lawnmower man is involved for sure, but there's obviously more to it. The preview for next week still has me confused. So much more to come.
I was confused about lawnmower man - I wouldn't be surprised if he was just a dim-witted family member who could have provided valuable info to either set of detectives, had they spent some more time questioning him.
I was confused about lawnmower man - I wouldn't be surprised if he was just a dim-witted family member who could have provided valuable info to either set of detectives, had they spent some more time questioning him.
what bothers me is that cohle was DEFINITELY close enough to see the facial scarring through the beard when he was talking to him out front of the school. surely a detective doesn't miss the distinguishing feature of even a peripherally involved source of information
vintageinfants said:what bothers me is that cohle was DEFINITELY close enough to see the facial scarring through the beard when he was talking to him out front of the school. surely a detective doesn't miss the distinguishing feature of even a peripherally involved source of information
Bugged me too. For someone who picks up on a lot of little details, that one was right in his face. Didn't they already have a tip off about scarring at that point?
But, that dude isn't tall. Is he?
Bugged me too. For someone who picks up on a lot of little details, that one was right in his face. Didn't they already have a tip off about scarring at that point?
But, that dude isn't tall. Is he?
I thought it was kind of trashy how they made Lawnmower-guy's voice all in-bred and weird this episode. When you go back to episode three his voice was completely normal.
Also, agreed, Rust should have clocked the scars the first time around.
Still... Looking fwd to the final episode
Also, agreed, Rust should have clocked the scars the first time around.
Still... Looking fwd to the final episode
Yeah, he kind of turned slingblade. I actually wondered if it was the same dude. Voice was different and all of a sudden they made the scars more pronounced.
And...
If your face is scarred like that you don't grow facial hair. He wouldn't have had a cover up beard convincing enough to fool Rust.
Edit: looking at a screenshot, it's a choppy beard, but how would a detective not remember a mangled face like that?
And...
If your face is scarred like that you don't grow facial hair. He wouldn't have had a cover up beard convincing enough to fool Rust.
Edit: looking at a screenshot, it's a choppy beard, but how would a detective not remember a mangled face like that?
