Dark and Ominous Main Titles for “Turkiye’deki Seri Katiller” Documentary

Production:
Creative Director: Mert Kızılay
Producer: Duygu Türkmen
Lead Designers: Mert Erçin, Taha Celal Yıldırım
Designers/Animators: Mert Erçin, Taha Celal Yıldırım, Begüm Tuncer, Yasin Eşin, Soner Ünlü
Character Animator: Emre Çamcı
Title & GFX Designer: Mert Şentürk
Photography: Nazlı Pekdemir

 
Client: Mördak Yapım
Producer: Emre Kardesseven
Director: Birkan Yilmaz
Writer: Atiye Cansu Turan
Executive Producer: Murat Şener
Editing: Umut Keri
DoP: Engin Özkaya GYD
Creative director Mert Kızılay in Istanbul: “Since the market for title sequences is very weak in Turkey, we always consider creating them as passion projects.
“But the core concept was to create these wide sceneries, having the killers as giants in the fog. Then at the end, we wanted to introduce many distorted faces to emphasize the mental aspect.
“In return for the limited budget, the client gave us creative freedom. I presented a few concepts, and eventually, we decided to combine two of them.
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Music: Soykan Soner
“We used this quote as our creative guide: “Locals used to call them monsters. Unseen, haunting, they fall upon their homelands like a dark suffocating mist.”
“Also we wanted to be very sensitive about our imagery, since this is a documentary about real happenings.
“Because of the limited budget, we combined different techniques. We did a lot of photography, we used some live-action, some 3D projection using the pictures we took. We also used some stock elements, 3D scans, and CGI.”