Piers Torday's The Last Wild trilogy, a dramatic sequence of titles in which a little boy called Kester sets out to save the last surviving animals in the wild, is in a very different vein.
"Form," Calasso argues, is everything: from "the choice and sequence of titles published … to the texts that accompany the books, as well as the way the books are presented as objects," including covers, graphics, layout, typeface and paper.
Better to carefully plan your sequence of titles, and to take the time to write well. 5. Get the genre right Of course, write what you love, first and foremost -- but if you have your eye on money, the most popular ebook categories are thriller, mystery and romance novels.
Although Federer's sequence of Wimbledon titles began even before Nadal emerged as a leading player, his relief at switching from the surface on which he has never won a grand slam to Wimbledon's green carpet has become more palpable since the younger man started making Paris such purgatory for him.
The 19 sequences of the title, a perpetual motion of reinvented patterns playing at different speeds in constant oscillation, felt like a new departure, while also referring back to Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (1997/8), a work central to Birtwistle's creative vocabulary.
Here are some highlights from the history of title sequences: "The Palm Beach Story," designer unknown, 1942.
She is a producer of title sequences for television and film and works from Manhattan.
Bass revolutionized film marketing in the 1950's and early 60's with a series of title sequences that used a recognizable logo, like the chopped-up silhouette for "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959) or the swirling spirographs for Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958).
Then, in 1951, came the start of The Music of Time sequence, the title deriving from Nicolas Poussin's allegorical painting.
Scorsese's answer was the title sequence of "Raging Bull".
