Who made the title design for Final Approach?
Eric Steven Stahl was the director, producer and title designer for Final Approach. Glen Glenn Sound was a prolific Hollywood-based audio post-production company which provided creative services to the television and film industry and this was where Stahl started off.Where did they get their ideas from?
Eric hugely influenced by Stanley Kubrick and 2001. "When you look at Final Approach it just reeks of 2001 influence". The little particles of light are completely influenced by 2001, the whole star travel sequence. He loves the beauty and the simplicity of 2001 and so this was his emulation and homage to that. The other thing that he was always fascinated with was mind game movies. Stahl loved Sleuth and The Twilight Zone.
What was their relationship with the director and film studio like? (Apogee Studios)
"Well, he and I go back. He was my visual effects supervisor and he was running a company called Apogee. They started their shop on a little street called Valjean that’s about five miles from where I am now which is right on top of the Van Nuys Airport. I approached John when I was doing Digital Dream. He was wonderful and that’s where I established my relationship with him. Years later when I did Final Approach I went back and I said, “This is my first feature film. Do you want to help me out?” And so they did an enormous amount of the visual effects work and compositing work. He’s the guy that came up with the idea in Final Approach where the camera — at the end of the title sequence — pulls out of Jim Sikking’s eye. That’s all John Dykstra."
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