
Television allows us to adapt not only to the story but the actors themselves.Welcome to day three of our survey of the hugely influential 1994–95 network-television season, which found Friends , ER, and My So-Called Life hobnobbing on the same schedule with Seinfeld , The Simpsons, and The X-Files. They wanted me to stop her from doing that and I said, "No, I actually want to embrace this." So we worked around Claire.
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Scott: When Claire was cast, she wasn't an experienced actress, so she didn't know how to hit her mark or stand still while we were shooting. There is also a good deal of movement, lots of swirling of cameras and characters. There was always a sort of matching quality from one scene to another. Scott: My style of directing is unique in a sense that I like to shoot stories in a lyrical fashion where scenes and story flows visually from one element to another, so that aspect was incorporated into the shooting of the pilot anyway. Scott, had you already planned it while directing the pilot? The cuts in the title are so fluid, they almost naturally flow into each other. I gave them different versions of the logo but I knew this one was it. Kathie: It was such a literate show, the way they spoke was very natural but it was also well thought out. My So-Called Life logotype designed by Kathie Broyles At the time generally all we had was the pilot and I would cut that material against the music. Snuffy and I would collaborate on the music and then I would go in and use the dailies from what we had. Scott: I went with a composer, Snuffy Walden, who I hired on thirtysomething, who I discovered out of thin air. How did you come up with the concept for the main title? In particular, that feeling of despair, confusion and elation, sometimes all at once, which was never just a '90s phenomenon and, in fact, forms the tapestry of adulthood as well as long as you keep watching out for it.Ī discussion with Director SCOTT WINANT and Title Designer KATHIE BROYLES. In a similar way, a look back at the intro to My So-Called Life is like flipping through a musical slideshow of your own high school experience, regardless of when you grew up. "There were still teachers there that were there when I was in school.
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" My So-Called Life was very personal to me because we shot the series at my high school, so it was kind of surreal," he says. Winant had worked with the show's creators, Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, on their boomer drama thirtysomething (he cut those titles as well) – as had title designer Kathie Broyles – and it was MSCL writer Winnie Holzman who insisted he direct the pilot, from which he spliced the intro. "If nothing else, it lets you know you’re about to spend 44 minutes watching something great." So does the montage of scenes that are cut to it, culminating in the iconic image of Angela running down a school hallway into the light. "It conveys anticipation, growth, aggression, confusion," he wrote. The result is what Dave Holmes at Vulture considers the best theme song of 1994-1995's "epic" television season, which also included hits like Party of Five, Seinfeld, and ER.

"To use just a voice as an instrument that spoke to that youth." "To me that brought the humanness to it," Walden said.

To that he added "more of an electrified teen angst" and his friend, singer Julian Raymond, whom he told simply to soar. Langer) whispering to her new best friend, Angela Chase (Claire Danes). "And there's even a line I stole from it." That would be Rayanne Graff (A.J. "The original idea for the theme came out of the opening cue of the pilot when the girls were running around the mall," Walden says on The Complete Series DVD. Snuffy Walden captured the alienated zeitgeist of ’90s grunge culture at the top of the show. Along with director Scott Winant, relatively green composer W.G. Go." The soft muffled bomps of the xylophone, the whisper, the shimmering cymbals – the title sequence of My So-Called Life is familiar to any disenchanted teen girl from the mid-’90s.
