Kyle Cooper

Cooper is also acclaimed as the most innovative and important designer of film titles since Saul Bass. He is most known for his creation of the title sequence for the horror thriller SEVEN, credited as bringing about a renaissance in innovative film title design. The titles to SEVEN are short films in their own right not just design solutions but metaphorical representations of the whole film. SEVENS title sequences is highly stylized, the letters are hand scratched by Cooper onto film stock frame by frame. The sequence captured the mind of the movies serial killer and set the tone for the entire film. Its a unique blend of auteur and creative genius that makes the sequence memorable, but doesnt over shadow the movie it becomes a part of it.

The New York Times summed up the Cooper effect: "The opening and closing credits asr so good, they're almost worth sitting through the film for."

Copper counts Saul Bass's work, along with Stephen Frankfurt's lead in for To Kill A Mockinbird, as his greatest influences.

Cooper the man described as the next Saul Bass, also has that edge which has captured my attention. Againg the name was nit familiar to me however is work definitly was, I find his work links extremly well to its content just as Bass's does. The mini movies- title sequences give you that glimps of what the movie entails or the effects it might bring upon you. That ability to link the titles with the actual movie is something Cooper does extremly well, so well infact many Hollywood producers refuse to work with him due to the fat that his titles might upstage the actual movie itself.Typography is another particular area of his work which I reaaly like, as it too completly reflects and ties in with the movie wether it be its shape, tone or the context within which it is placed. Again I will persue a great interest in the work he produeces and has produced.