![]() ![]() I’m loving this series, and not just for the Dasher 2 terminals. HBO has renewed Silicon Valley, with Season 5 set to premiere sometime in 2018. The CG animated title sequence for Severance is weird and wonderful and I think it sets the tone beautifully for this show about work-life balance. These guys got fired, but still made millions,” the narrator explains. No backstory goes unnoticed by Shots Fired: “Parachuting past from the Twitter logo are recently-fired Twitter executives getting their ‘golden parachute’ severance packages. Main Title Sequence by 71PICTURES Designed and Directed by Carlo Alleva Lead Compositor and Animator: Carlo Alleva Composite and Animation: Alessando Chiossi, Andra Battistoni VFX Producer. Uber and Lyft, for example, are portrayed as hot air balloons (read: transportation) colliding into each other to represent their rivalry, while Facebook’s logo in the sequence is shown “eating up” its many acquisitions such as Oculus and WhatsApp, with Snapchat’s ghostly logo floating nearby. Title Art Direction and Concept: Oliver Latta (extraweg) Music and Score. The video also goes into the intro’s not-so-subtle symbolism. Over the course of the nearly eight-minute-long video, Shots Fired details every company found in the “toy valley” from established giants like Google and Intel, to newcomers like Slack and Soylent, along with companies with shady histories like Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos. ![]() ![]() The intro is just ten seconds long, but it’s chock-full of inside jokes and history pertaining to the tech companies that inhabit the world of tech. What was this workplace thriller from (the notoriously snide comedy-creating) Ben Stiller The premise itself was. YouTube user Shots Fired created an extensive video breaking down the show’s title sequence. Apple TV+’s series Severance premiered with a healthy dose of curiosity. ![]()
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