In the Studio: Dan Perri

在工作室:丹·佩里

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-01-06

39 分钟
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You might not know the name Dan Perri, but you will probably have seen his work: he designed the title sequences for some of the most famous films in cinema history. Mark Burman hears how he created the titles for Star Wars, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and The Exorcist.
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  • I've always thought in motion.

  • I never knew there was a category of designing something in motion with specific elements.

  • These elements being letters, words and titles.

  • When I learned of that little niche, the film business, I realized that I could belong there and I could then apply and execute my ideas in some proper form.

  • Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Mark Berman and in this retrospective edition of in the Studio, I'm talking to Dan Perry, title creator extraordinaire for film and television.

  • Titles are those very first words and images that usher you into the opening of a screen story.

  • Crucial scene setters, often playful clues and hints to let you know what kind of world you're about to spend the next two hours or more in.

  • From typewriter keys explosively punching out the opening of all the President's Men, to the creation of Freddy Krueger's monstrous claws in Nightmare on Elm street, to the legendary opening crawl receding into the galactic distance of Star Wars, Dan Perry has been creating his own mini movie magic since the early 1970s.

  • Creating the concept for me is a two step thing.

  • The concept comes first, but then the execution of that idea is called the design.

  • There's many examples of really great concepts that are just mediocre in their execution.

  • Then there are times that the idea is mediocre but so well executed it becomes better than it would have been otherwise.

  • But obviously the best of those worlds would be an amazing idea so well executed that it's just a classic.

  • And that's what I always strive for.