Concept and creative process
Opening titles for ‘All Good Things’, a comedy drama serial - a marriage and home can be made complete with the arrival of a new baby, but Shirley Frame feels a need to share her good fortune by going out into the world and helping others, driving her husband Phil up the wall. For the title sequence, a mold was taken from heavy pieces of slate and then slip cast in grey plaster. These cast plaster pieces were then dressed into a specially created rig that allowed them to be broken from behind in a controlled direction. The sequence was then filmed in slow motion at 100 FPS on a 35mm film camera. The edited slate sequence was taken into digital post production where the actors were framed and projected onto the slate surface to suggest their worlds being fractured by events to come.