Motion Credits
Wordmark
This project is a motion credits opening for the Netflix show Mindhunter. The show deals with very dark subject matter about FBI agents interviewing real life Serial killers. The agents sift through disturbed and twisted information to form a psychological case on potential Serial Killers. I started with the show’s Wordmark, I wanted to get across a very dark, unsettling, suspenseful tone but at the same time analytical, like you’re piecing together a puzzle. So I went with a maze theme for the Wordmark.
Storyboard
The show is set in the 1970s so I wanted it to have an FBI paper files look, with the red pen marks implying blood and victims. To get across the theme of piecing together a puzzle and following a trail through a deranged serial killer’s mind, I decided to have the viewer go through a forming maze, while the maze is closing in and trapping you in dead ends. It’s like a mental cat and mouse game with the killer. Every mistake is deadly.
Final Video
After a looking through multiple song choices I decided to go with Nine Inch Nails’s Ghosts V-VI album, which was released royalty free. I chose the song “Around Every Corner” because it evoked a feeling of a slow, constant, creeping dread that you just can’t place. For the video I decided to make it look like the viewer is looking over details with a magnifying glass. Looking over every corner, as the maze closes in around you until eventually you’re enclosed. As it pulls back, it reveals that the maze was actually forming the title.
