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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
I can guarantee the closest shave you'll ever know.
—Sweeney Todd
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Title Designer RICHARD MORRISON:

This industry is very specific and if you do a good job then you tend to be remembered by directors and producers. What I enjoyed most was coming up with the whole idea. I did not have to pitch to Tim but I turned this project into an internal pitch at th1ng. And so, a few days later, I had a room full of some truly outstanding creative work. I took it all to Tim and he just spread the pieces all over the floor and spent around a day or two looking through them. And then he just said: I really like this narrative piece (mine) and those coloured frames (Shay Hamias, director).

Animating blood and its movement became the most crucial and challenging element of the sequence. We had to build special platforms within which we imitated blood movement and filmed it. And we had to give it this comical feel, which worked really well. That was a dream project. We would love to work on something similar.

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Title Designer: Richard Morrison

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Title sequence

  • Title Designer

    Richard Morrison
  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    3D, animation, graphic, main title
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Film Director

    Tim Burton
  • Release Date

    December 21, 2007
  • Aspect Ratio

    1.85:1
  • Studio

    Paramount Pictures
  • Country

    USA
  • Language

    English
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

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