Karin FongBy Laxmi Shiyani, Hayley Boyle and Aaron Pye

Biography0 Karin Fong is based in New York and Los

Angeles. She is a director and designer who began her career with an art degree. Fong has created many title sequences for films. Her work has earned her four nominations and an Emmy for main title design. Karin’s work is combined with live action, design, and animation. By the Fast Company magazine she has been named one of the top 100 Most Creative People in Business. Karin has worked in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Artists Space, and The Wexner Center, as well as in numerous publications on film and design. Karin is currently on the faculty at the Yale School of Art where she teaches in the MFA program design for films and videos. She started her career in becoming an animator by creating an animated alphabet book for her senior project which had then launched on the WGBH Television Program.

• Dead man on campus (1998)• 102 Dalmatians(2000)

• Daredevil (2003) • Hellboy (2004)

• Ray (2004)• The prizewinner of defiance,

Ohio (2005)• The Mummy III: Tomb of the

dragon emperor (2008)• The pink panther 2 (2009)

• Terminator Salvation (2009) • God of war III (2010)

• Magic trip (2011)• This means war (2012)

Karin Fong’s quotes

0 “I’m always looking for different and surprising and memorable ways for things to transition, or for you to take the viewer on a journey, I think surprise is a wonderful tool”

0 "Title sequences interested me from the beginning and had a part in luring me to RGA/LA, where I was hired by Kyle Cooper,"

The title sequence begins with glass breaking and a cartoon security guard or inspector falling through the glass, the music then kicks in and lets the audience know immediately which film there watching with the iconic pink panther theme song playing, the inspector then takes out a magnifying glass to show he is looking for clues probably about a crime. The sequence then focuses the attention on a pink diamond in the middle of the room from where the title of the film appears as well as the main character. This then tells the audience that this maybe what the film could be about as the rest of the title sequence is about the pink panther stealing this diamond and then flees from the museum with inspector chasing him across Europe and also the rest of the world, we can see this from the map they fall onto and then the landmarks he is chased past. Throughout being chased the names of everyone who helped create the film was being revealed one by one.

As soon as the title sequence starts the audience hears the music straight away, it is quite upbeat but depressing at the same time. The first few titles appear on a black background in white writing which then fades backwards to the next one, until pictures of tests flash up and then a gun shot, the title then appears and fades out. It then goes into more pictures of exam papers which fade in and out.

As the exam papers are fading in and out, images of how to kill people or yourself come in which give the audience massive hints on what the film could be about but also the title can also be a hint on the film. On most of the images there are names of the people who have helped to make the film alongside the questions and where it shows how to kill. The title sequence then finishes on who the film is directed by next to a man who has been hung.

Comparisons between the two……

The main comparisons between the two are that in both title sequences Karin Fong try's to hint and show her audiences what each film is about using images of things and telling a story in her own way, also in both title sequences she uses music quite heavily to set an atmosphere within the title sequence.