The Sangor Syndrome

While John edits STORMY TEMPEST: UNMASKED, I'm back working on THE SANGOR SYNDROME. The first half of SANGOR will be released as a download and will run approx. 30 min. The title sequence for each half should have a briefer run time than the final, full length DVD version. I LOVE creating titles and am having fun with this one. Since the film is sub-titled BLOOD FIEND FROM OUTER SPACE and its about vampires, I decided the title visuals should be in hues of red. Here I wanted to be completely original so I created a font, hand drawn, rather than using an existing type face. I created a montage of images swimming thru a constantly moving, blood-red background. Images that pass thru the background are taken from production photos. Since the title is at the beginning of the film I did not want to give away certain images (like the SANGOR monster) before you see them in the film. So these images are subtle... blended into the moving red that streams across the frame. I applied a transparancy filter so that background streaming reds and photos merge together. On top of this the actual titles appear. This will give the audience the impression of what they are about to see in the film ahead. I've edited the music so that the beats hit where there is a visual impact. The film begins with a pre-title vampire attack which seques into a stylistic montage of one of our beautiful vampire women... then... WHAM! The titles start. Blood red clouds swirls thru a pool of blood... and thru that pass images (subtly) of the Alien space craft, the Sangor monster, Maria Paris, Lawrence Benjamin, Bill Greenman and Sydney Foxx ... the image of each actor moves across the frame beneath their title credits.

Bill Black