In reply to paul-1970:
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> 'The Shining': Totally draws you in from the start. Cold, long, ominous panning shots of that road up to the Overlook Hotel, while Wendy Carlos's incredible electronic soundtrack cranks up the the atmosphere.
That's nice to hear, Paul, as I actually cut the opening title sequence of The Shining, i.e. selected the aerial shots from about an hour of footage, and did the first rough cut (as a piece of editing it was actually rather easy). It got tweaked a bit later by Ray Lovejoy and Stanley Kubrick as the title and credits were dropped in. I also laid the music - mind you, that required no skill at all as it was the only piece of complete readymade, uncut music used in the film (and the only piece by Wendy Carlos, apart from a few sound effects added later in the score). I must emphasise the obvious, of course: that the whole concept of the opening title sequence was entirely Stanley Kubrick's.
Interestingly, Saul Bass designed The Shining poster (but I think very much to a preconceived idea by Stanley), but he was not involved in the title sequence at all. I was fortunate to meet him when he visited Stanley at his home in Hertfordshire. A very nice guy.
