Concept and creative process
Titles for a series in which Bernard Falk, his guests and an audience of saints and sinners explored the Seven Deadly Sins. The title sequence was made by photographing the presenter with a motorised camera as he mimed the different facial expressions depicting each deadly sin. The photographs were registered together to permit accurate re-filming inside a vignette with a rostrum film camera. This was achieved in two passes. The first pass to expose the animating vignette and the name of the sin with a solid black matte behind it, and a second pass to film the registered stills of the presenter with an animating matte, which enabled them to be positioned inside the already exposed vignette. A full screen wipe was used to reveal a different artwork montage of all of the faces and sins for the programme title.