12 ANGRY MEN

TITLE SEQUENCE

This class project is to create a movie title sequence for a classic film. 12 Angry Men is a courtroom film in 1957 directed by Sidney Lumet. The film’s story is about a jury of 12 men that have to decide if an 18-year-old defendant is guilty or not based on reasonable doubt. The boy is accused of stabbing his father to death, and if the 12 jurors find him guilty, he will receive a death sentence via electric chair.

The idea of changing the verdict from guilty to not guilty during the film is very impressive. At the beginning of the film, 11 people agree that the boy is guilty, and there is only one person who is unsure about it. The number of negative votes gradually changed. The evidence that became clear wholly altered the course of justice. During the film, some evidence is repeated several times, such as a Swiss knife, a wiped fingerprint, a jury room, a corpse, hands, scraps of papers, and aggressive faces. I depicted some of these elements in my work using illustration. After developing a concept and storyboard for it, I started to illustrate a few style frames to show the layout of each frame. The technique used for illustration is digital painting. Then I animated each style frame in After effect and made a sequence of them. The predominant colors that I used are black, red, and acre.

Music by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_mR…