Do composers write music for the opening titles (especially on films like Spider Man (2002) and Batman) before they are inserted into the final cut or after?
I'm just wondering whether the opening sequence such as in those films is designed around music or vice versa.
Good question. Seems to me it would be easier to design the titles to fit the music rather than the other way around. But then a title designer might say otherwise.
What about Psycho? I'm guessing Saul Bass designed the titles to match the music.
Good question. Seems to me it would be easier to design the titles to fit the music rather than the other way around. But then a title designer might say otherwise.
What about Psycho? I'm guessing Saul Bass designed the titles to match the music.
I've often wondered this very thing, with Johnny Williams' many main title sequences for the Irwin Allen adventure shows of the '60s. What came first: the splashy animated credits, or the cool theme?
On the Bond films, the song is written and recorded first and then it's up to the titles designer to sync to the music, not vice versa.
But I'm sure it's not always that way.
A bit of both, I'd suggest.
It would seem, after discovering on you tube, that a lot of the James Bond Song's ...there was a couple different version for the Producers to chose from.
Thunderball...Johnny Cash Anthony Newly The Pretenders and on and on.
