Kyle Cooper - kiss kiss bang bang

Kyle cooper displays his impressive skills in graphic design through this title sequence. He worked as executive producer on this project, playing a important role in matching the imagery to the mood, theme and Genre.

The whole sequence is portrayed in cartoon graphics, which give a comical effect to the opening, and indicates a Film noire, murder mystery genre to the film. This added with the lack of colour resembles the discolouration on the pages of stereotypical crime novels. The colour code uses basic noir colours of black and white juxtaposed with the orange and red pulling our attention towards the connotations of blood and danger yet with a sense of fantasy and passion. This is supported by the title of the film; "kiss" suggests a sense of romance which is displayed by the repeated use of the colour red and "bang" suggesting action which is supported by the pace and energy of the graphics. From this sequence it is clear to see the genre of the film is action and film noire with themes of romance and crime. Action is implied through the fast pace in the editing, it also show the location and the following of a character. The comic book effect features silhouettes of characters to give the film a murder mystery style.
I believe one of the reasons Kyle Cooper is so successful is the way he creates enigma in his title sequences. By doing this the audience is drawn in and feel eager and excited to further watch the film. The Enigma makes the audience question the film and in order to answer these questions they continue to watch. 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' is a prime example of this. Cooper chooses to animate this entire sequence showing no actors faces and no specific locations, revealing very little and enticing the audience to watch the film.