The Mosquito Coast: Title Sequence

Adapted for a television series by Neil Cross and Tom Bissell, The Mosquito Coast tells the story of a family on the run. Each member of the family has their own motivations and subplots that all act in concert or tension with the family patriarch’s (Justin Theroux) genius, idealism, and history. It was important to capture within the title sequence this sense of interweaving stories and ratcheting tension.

In order to do this we developed this idea of a flexible grid structure contained within a continually collapsing frame. The grid contains multiple streams of imagery that can juxtapose, overlap, and occasionally take over the frame to create a sense of complexity, relationship, and tension as the viewer is nominally carried on a journey from Stockton California to The Mosquito Coast in Central America. All the while the walls are closing in and the frame is tightening until finally disappearing to nothingness in the end.

Credits

Executive Creative Director Erin Sarofsky
Executive Producer Steven Anderson
Creative Director Stefan Draht
Senior Producer Joel Signer
Editor, Color, Finish Tanner Wickware
Additional Editorial Stefan Draht
Motion Designers
Duarte Elvas
Jake Allen
Dan Moore
Associate Producer Kelsey Hynes