Kyle Cooper Research

KYLE COOPER

Cooper was born in 1962 and is a designer of motion picture. He studied graphic design at Yale. In the early stage of his career he worked as a creative director at an advertising agency in NY and with another office in LA. While working at the agency he created a title sequence for a 1995 crime scene which was very successful. When doing this he inspired a lot of young directors and designers. Cooper also made a title sequence for seven  and the main title sequences that were used in the film. Normally he is brought in just to do the titles and is not the actual director of the film he is only brought in to do the titles of the film.

Cooper was born in 1962 and is a designer of motion picture. He studied graphic design at Yale. In the early stage of his career he worked as a creative director at an advertising agency in NY and with another office in LA. While working at the agency he created a title sequence for a 1995 crime scene which was very successful. When doing this he inspired a lot of young directors and designers. Cooper also made a title sequence for seven  and the main title sequences that were used in the film. Normally he is brought in just to do the titles and is not the actual director of the film he is only brought in to do the titles of the film.

Cooper has done the opening sequences of many prestigous and popular films such as brave heart, seven, the mummy and tropic thunder. Cooper is famous fro the interesting typogrophy that he uses in his titles. His most famous piece is probably seven. most of the mise en scene in the opeing titles are shows a lot of body parts in a very dark light which could be used to say that this film is a horror. The sound in the opeing titles use a lot of techno music showing that this film might be extremely fast pased. The music speeds up when something is about to happen which is stereo-typical. There is also a lot fo synchronous sound when he is sewing. the camera angles are mainly close ups.

However, Personally i believe that the editing in the title sequence that Cooper made is the most prelific thing about his work. there are a lot of cross cuts and jump cuts in the opening titles of seven outlining that it is a very fast pased film. Moreover it re enphasizes the fact that this film is a horror. This is a stereo typical aproach to show that it is a horror.

There are certain props in the opening credits show items that would typically be used for violence or other things that would hurt people. The font that pops up is white and comes at a fast pace into the screen. Moreover there are pictures of broken body parts symbolising that it might be a horror. Furthermore i believe that the film is seen through two different view points as there is a point where a man is writing and we see two pens illustrating that someone is looking at him.

in seven he uses interesting typogrophy and it is probably his most famous piece of work out of more that 150 title sequences. although he normally only does the titles he has directed a film called saul bass.