Elastic - Opening Credits: True Detective, Season 2

#transformative, #animation, #typography, #film, #graphic design

This video is featured in the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, on view at the museum February - August 2016.

About:
Elastic has created some of the most intriguing title sequences in recent television history. Directed by Patrick Clair (Australian b. 1982), the opening credits for HBO’s True Detective (2014 and 2015) present moody montages that fit the dark tone of the series.

[thezachmarsh]

I really love the way this one just STARTS. Like you're thrown into it. I'd argue that S1 and ESPECIALLY S3 have at least a couple seconds to let you prepare before the imagery floods in.

[NoppanatKhaoyai]

The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line

I was not caught
Though many tried
I live among you
Well disguised

I had to leave
My life behind
I dug some graves
You'll never find

The story's told
With facts and lies
I had a name
But never mind

Never mind
Never mind
I had to leave my life behind

The story's told
With facts and lies
You own the world
So never mind

My woman's here
My children too
Their graves are safe
From ghosts like you

In places deep
With roots entwined
I live the life I left behind

The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line

I was not caught
Though many tried
I live among you
Well disguised

[pragmatic]

1 season opening was wonderful for me

[kingdavid]

art's fine, music is terrible - especially since season 1's music was so good