Puppy Love

Main Titles

Collider was approached by director Michael Maxxis to create the main titles for his debut indy feature, Puppy Love. A gritty, raw, black comedy, Puppy Love tells an unlikely love story between a simpleton virgin and a drug addict sex worker as they find common ground in the suburban backdrop of Edmonton, Canada.

Collider used a combination of concepts to break the titles into two sequences.

Object and film design grid, fifteen Main Titles frames from liquid macros to bathroom scenes
Puppy Love shoot, a crew member lighting a tank of amber liquid on set

Several hundred litres of cola and lemonade were mixed together to fill a small tank for large enough to shoot a variety of falling objects.

Main Titles production still, two crew at monitors beside a lighting panel in a dark studio
Film crew on the Main Titles set, camera and dolly facing a plywood flat
Object build detail, hands pressing a small block onto a bench of layout paper
Puppy Love set piece, a green toilet door with a men's icon and scratched graffiti
Main Titles camera monitor showing a chrome VACANT latch with framing and timecode overlaid
Film set for Main Titles, a crew member stepping across the tiled bathroom flat

As well as carefully recreating some of the shoot locations we created physical props with cast names incorporated into the scene to keep the typography as unaesthetic and naturally integrated as possible.

Object prop, a shampoo bottle labelled Rosanna Arquette photographed against a plain backdrop
Puppy Love credit prop, a cola bottle whose red label reads Wayne Newton
Main Titles prop can of shaving foam credited to Michael Madsen, shot on white
Film frame of dense golden bubbles filling the whole screen in warm sepia

Credits.

Creative Directors: Andrew van der Westhuyzen & Kare Martens
Producer. Zaina Ahmed
DOP. Jordan Maddocks
Art Director. Chloe Jouin
Standby Props. Tony Moss
Lead Compositor. Danielle Angelica Grefiel
Colourist. Billy Wychgel

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