Title Sequence Creation

The title sequence for Westworld is a finely crafted piece of work that draws together experts from quite a few specialities
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(Much of the information on this page came from http://www.artofthetitle.com and, in particular, from their excellent article.http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/westworld/)
== People ==
=== The Design Studio http://elastic.tv/ ===
The production studio who won the contract to produce the title sequence, elastic, have an impressive pedigree, their work includes titles for: 
The Crown,
Amanda Knox,
Marvel’s Luke Cage,
The Night Manager,
The Leftovers (Season 2),
True Detective (Season 2),
Marvel’s Daredevil,
87th Academy Awards,
The Man in the High Castle,
Halt and Catch Fire,
True Detective,
Masters of Sex,
The Americans,
Game of Thrones,
Deadwood,
Carnivàle
For the Westworld prohject, the team grew and shrank as needed during the project, but the core members were:
File:Patrick Clair.JPG|Patrick Clair, Creative Director
File:Paul Kim.JPG|Paul Kim, Designer
File:Raoul Marks.JPG|Raoul Marks, Lead Animator
The design process was quite a long one. It started in February and finished in October, a few days before Westworld went on air.
=== Westworld Production ===
File:Ramin.JPG|Ramin Djawadi, Composer and Arranger
File:Ww joy nolan.jpg|Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan, Showrunners
elastic worked closely with the composer Ramin Djawadi and the showrunners, Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan.
They had just finished the titles for True Detective when Clair read an interview with Jonah and Lisa (Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan, Westworld Showrunners) on one of the TV rumour sites about Westworld. Clair was looking for the next project and asked Jennifer Sofio Hall, a Managing Partner at Elastic, get them the work - and she delivered.
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Djawadi, Joy & Nolan all invested time in the relationship with elastic. Clair also acknowledges the inspiration of Bjork's video for the song All is Full of Love, which was directed by Chris Cunningham.
== Design Boards ==
The design boards produced by elastic provided talking points, jumping off points, in the discussions with Joy and Nolan. At least some of these pictures were reused from previous projects. The styleframes.
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== Reference Pictures ==
The reference pictures seem to be the next step in the process, specific images that came out of the Design Board process. The look and feel references.
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File:Ww robotlover 01.jpg|Some of these images make their way into the final sequence
File:Ww reference 02.jpg|others, just as striking, don't get any further
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File:Ww reference 05.jpg|There are some very "finished" images here
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File:Ww reference 07.jpg|The two images with the milky fluid
File:Ww reference 09.jpg|feel very familar
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File:Ww vitruvianman 01-0-1280-0-1024.jpg|The Vitruvian man is almost a tradement of WW
== Storyboards ==
An iteration of the storyboard process, how the title sequence might have looked.
File:Ww storyboards 01.jpg|Storyboard 1, the tendons of the horse and the crafting of the rider's eye.
File:Ww storyboards 02.jpg|Storyboard 2, the skeletal hands (digitised from video Ramin Djawadi playing) and the piano that plays itself
File:Ww storyboards 03.jpg|Storyboard 3, the robot lovers, still being created
== The Cowgirl ==
We start to see some images that appear in the final title sequence.
One of the most commonly asked questions is - who's the girl on the horse? From the frontal view we have here, it doesn't appera to be any of the actresses is the main production. If it's based on anyone, it may be someone at elastic, or a actor employed by them.
It possibly could be Armistice. It's a female with long blonde hair, but there's no snake tattoo on the right side of her face. Maybe an earlier version of the host, before she got the role of Armistice?
File:Ww cowgirl 01.jpg|the finished rider, missing only her horse
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File:Ww cowgirlhead 02.jpg|with hat, but without 1/2 her skin
File:Ww eye 01.jpg|the eye, that is seen being "printed"
== The Player Piano ==
elastic spent a day photographing the player piano in the production office, and then created digital versions of it that are used in the show - as well as in the title sequence.
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== Versions ==
Here's the Season 2 version of the opening credits. It uses the same theme as the Season 1 version (has the same music and continues to show partially printed hosts/items), but with a number of the elements changed:
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Here's a comparison video showing the two versions side-by-side:
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The Season 3 version of the opening credits has the same theme as the first two seasons, but like the second season, the third season has some changes.
== References ==
Category:Behind the scenes
Category:Op-Ed Pieces