Concept and creative process
Opening titles for ‘Quatermass II ‘ which was the second in a series of British science-fiction thrillers which had audiences hiding behind the sofa with fear in the 1950s. Professor Quatermass uncovered a terrifying conspiracy after he investigated alien objects that had landed from space causing people to behave like zombies. The title sequence was shot using only a single caption of the series title but cut out of black card and filmed live action with dry ice smoke effects billowing out through the cut-out letter forms and wafting over the foreground, thereby creating a background for the superimposition of the credits.