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He has some beautiful photographs that we referenced: high contrast black-and-white imagery of all the snaking freeways in Los Angeles, wider California and the Lake District, and also abstract aerial photography. We were lucky enough to have been given a whole bunch of work by photographer David Maisel. Double exposure technique has been going around for a while, but especially popularised by Elastics True Detective sequence. Supplementary: True Detective season two main title sequence by Elastic. The goal was to be recognizable, but also to take a new angle on the iconic aesthetic of California. True Detective made its second-season debut last night, and its opening title sequence is as predictably bleak-and as beautifully rendered-as the first.

2 Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012), Plate 20, page 50.

True detective title sequence full#

It needed to reflect our new setting of fictional Vinci, California, and feel like a lucid dream-unsettling and full of Californian heat. One of the longest-surviving legacies of the 21st-century title sequence design is undoubtedly one of Saul Bass. If you have followed Southern Spaces's coverage of Petrochemical America, you will recognize the images that open True Detective, beginning in the title sequence with Sugar Cane and Refinery, a photograph by Richard Misrach of a dirt road through a cane field, terminating in a ditch. So a large part of production was bringing the photography to life. In fact, the majority of imagery comes from still images.

We relied heavily on still photography for a lot of the locations and textural elements in the sequence. The more gloomy monotone vibes of the first season weren’t going to work… We needed some brighter turquoise and reds.

True detective title sequence series#

The Creators Project spoke with lead animator and compositor Raoul Marks about how they went about accomplishing this effect. The title sequence of the second series is a thing of absolute beauty. When Season Two of the popular HBO series True Detective premiered on June 21, many viewers were able to immediately tell from the opening title sequence, which features bright colors and a crisp defiant song by the great Leonard Cohen, that the second season would be nothing like the first. On the subject of Tucos, I was rewatching season 2 - and Walt missed a really easy excuse to explain why he had 2 cell phones.