Church Media Design posted this, if you’ll forgive me, amazing opening sequence for a church Bible Stories series. Hopefully the accompanying lecture & sermons were as cool as the opening credits.
“Amazing Stories” Title Package from Taylor Cox on Vimeo.
This church series introduction video was, no doubt, inspired, at some level, by the Steven Spielberg produced 80’s series of the same name. Seeing this magical opening reminded me of how much I loved watching Amazing Stories as a kid, which had an equally great magical opening sequence. I’d post that too but NBC/Universal is annoyingly paranoid and had users take it down from YouTube and the “internets,” oh well sorry about that.
I never realized this, but according to IMDB the original Amazing Stories series only ran for three years, but I was pretty influential to me, as was HBO’s equally cool Ray Bradbury’s Theater. Of course Amazing Stories and Ray Bradbury Theater had embedded in their DNA traces of the best fantasy show ever created, The Twilight Zone.
Those programs were at the same time dark, hopeful, scary, funny and ultimately magical. Including Bradbury’s novels and short stories; these influences made me see the world from a slightly off kilter perspective, and I am very grateful I had a chance to be exposed to these works of art growing up.
