"Bass" on the line

Here is Saul Bass talking to us about his work and process and in depth about some of his title sequences:

After watching this video i feel i have a slightly wider understanding of the "Bass" and his creative works and backgrounds. I was very interested in his development from and extremely graphics based working process with lot of animation and lines to his journey through to real life footage for the titles he created. But something that remains consistant throughout most work is the need for symbolic references to both title and to establish mood and give the audience some type of breif understanding of the film to come. For example Otto Preminger's "The Man with the golden arm" he explains the arm's jaggerd form is representive of drug addiction and also the use of a Cat in the opening of Edward Dmytryk's 1962 "Walk on the wild side" where as the black cat striding around whilst the camera tracks it reflects on the quite cool swift movie to come.

Bass also explains that his title openings in later films become some type of prologue to the film instead of just pure credits and title. It developed into the films begining already started before the end of the title comes up. I think there is something brilliant about Saul Bass's graphic animations, real life titles and the transitionary period between the two, he seemed to have always kept and developed with the time such as "Vertgo" where the crazy colour swirls would of been something brilliant of the time as he developed and played with new ideas... go on THE "BASS".