What made me really decide to become a graphic designer? The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968. I was excited about the split screen motion in the titles and throughout the film. So very basic now, I had never seen anything like it as a 17 year old.
Pablo Ferro created the graphic design and optical effects in the 1968 film. Ferro used a variety of techniques: forming a larger image out of smaller sub-images, moving the subframes, changing the tint colors of the subframes, duplicating the same image within multiple subframes, and so on. The edgy, jazzy score by Michel Legrand complemented the rhythmic visual editing.
Why I did not pursue a career in film titles I will never know, but the titles of the film and the presence of Steve McQueen, the coolest man of the 20th century, certainly sent me in the direction of graphic design. Well, a career as Steve McQueen was impossible.
Take a look at the titles on YouTube (with Legrand's Windmills of Your Mind sung by Noel Williamson):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgjuHTbT3o
It still makes me excited (but I don't get out much - he world has changed from black and white to colour since then and it's a bit too bright for me).
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