Interview

Interview

Here is me interviewing the person behind creating the Teen Wolf title sequences. The company is called 'Scatter light Studios', and the person is called Chris Billig. He replied to my questions through Gmail. I'm really happy with the interesting responses and I've learnt new things from it!

1) What was it like creating the opening title sequences?

It was awesome creating the main title sequence for TW.  Jeff Davis is such a wonderful creative partner who allowed me to not only create the main title for season 2, but fought to make sure we could update the main title every single season after that until the end.  In our first conversation we talked about inspiration together which lead to the creative approach you see in the main title for season 2.  After we established the style each season we would look at what was to come in order to lead the changes in our creative.  

  

2) Why didn't season 1 ever have a title sequence?

I’m not sure why season 1 didn’t have a main title or an amended main title, but I do know that Jeff demanded a new main title for season 2 as part of his willingness to do more episodes.  

3) The titles for season 2-5 are studio based, why was season 6 just footage from the show?

Season 6 was a tribute to everything in TW and therefore in order to accomplish that we decided season 6 should be footage from the show that would could stylize in our edit.  It didn’t seem right to try to mash together footage from old main titles along with show footage. With it being a tribute to everyone's hard work I was really happy with the final seasons main title.  

4) Stiles had two different studio sequences, one with his jeep (season 2-3), and one with his crime board (season 4-5). As a guess, was it because his character development needed updating?

Each season I tried to create new moments for all of the cast members.  Some of the more iconic imagery we kept just based on everyone loving it so much and some we moved past in order to give each cast member a deeper story.  So yes the character development was always part of the creative process in pushing the main title further. 

5) What was it like working with the music composed by Dino Meneghin for the title sequence? And how did it reflect what was on screen?

When I created the main title for season 2 it was edited to a piece of music I thought was appropriate for the tone.  While the music we used for the edit helped lead the inspiration I was happy with what Dino created for the main title.  Every season the outcome felt great and I’m glad to have been part of such a fun project.