I wanted to approach this brief as professionally as possible, so after discovering a website called Art of Title, which gives interviews and shows design concepts for title cards in film and television, I researched into my initial favourite introductions and read about how they came about to create them.
For Narcos, the designers wanted to delve into their research as much as possible, shown above, is the design boards and visual references that they came up with to get the exact appearance they wanted. In my project, I took about doing visual references very similar to this, as it was a way of showing individual features that I wanted to go into my introduction. I used Pinterest, Google search and deviantart to research into textures, imagery and colours that would reflect Chernobyl well.
Narcos kept to the theme of the show very well, researching into old pictures of the title character they were concentrating on, using film textures and planes as the focus of their research. I love their use of colours as this also reflects well on the intention of the programme, and the abandoned concepts (2nd image) was my inspiration for my own project. Although it doesn't convey the message that they wanted to for the title sequence, it reminds me of my own work and what I wanted to create, so became one of my main points of research, especially the use of texture and colour, the smoke being something that I would later on use in my own work.
"One thing that I wanted to really focus on was getting away from the traditional tropes of narco culture. Talking with the guys and really understanding Colombian culture and some of the more bizarre aspects of Pablo Escobar’s rise really gave us an awesome footing for ideation."
