The Little Death played at SXSW 2015 and won the audience award for narrative feature.
Director: Josh Lawson seepictures.net/
Title Sequence Director: Scott Geersen
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/au/movie/the-little-death/id914289513
The main-on-end titles for The Little Death mix the seriousness and humour of the main characters' fetishes as viewed through the lens of a textbook filled with definitions, diagrams, and illustrations, with credits and references sprinkled throughout. We called this “The Joy of Diagrams”.
The textbook, through it’s attempt at medical/psychological objectivity, allows us moments of humour without personal judgement: an impersonal view of deeply personal issues - sexual but not pornographic, clinical but rich with innuendo.
We aimed to show diagrams and instructions that were beautiful in their simplicity and matter-of-factness. Stylistically, there are nods to Ikea manuals and airline safety cards - right down to the vacant or random expressions often seen in such illustrations. The layout and diagrams are classic, minimal, clean. The typographic detail was extremely important, chosen to represent the printed encyclopaedias remembered from childhood, with finer text rendered as lines and blocks in order to concentrate the viewers attention on the main credits. The limited colour palette of a warm pink glow illuminating the darkness was set very early on in the pitch and applied to the opening titles, interstitials, and end credits.
The sequence rapidly summarises the concept of la petite mort, giving an overview of some of the fetishes in the movie, introduces us to cast and crew, skims over some case studies, features some clues from the storyline, and has a lot of fun with some potentially difficult material.
Interstitials and Opening Title: vimeo.com/118119969