Title sequence

DIEN BIEN PHU

Personal project focused on practicing mixed media and cut-out paper style. I designed this sequence by animating archival images and clips from the original film to create a historical visual identity.

The title card: Dien Bien Phu, over a footbridge of soldiers on crumpled paper

Still frame

  • Opening card: Jacques Kirsner presents
  • Original music by Georges Delerue, over two soldiers face to face
  • Two white crosses over a soldier, between two press clippings
  • With Ludmila Mikael, over a tank in action
  • Jean-François Balmer, over a parachute drop
  • Patrick Catalifo, over a newspaper page and a soldier
  • Donald Pleasence, over a column of soldiers and a tank

Archives

  • A soldier among a group of villagers and children
  • Soldiers under an aircraft wing, on the airstrip
  • Soldiers advancing through tall grass
  • A lone soldier in dense vegetation
  • Soldiers under cover in the foliage
  • A column of soldiers marching through the forest
  • A wrecked camp, a dog lying in the foreground
  • An aircraft and parachutes in a hazy sky
  • Soldiers sitting on a tank
  • A tank and soldiers on a plain
  • Soldiers running alongside a tank
  • Two soldiers in a jeep, seen through the windscreen
  • Surgery under a tent
  • An officer decorating a soldier outside a hut
  • Three officers in conversation
  • A jeep loaded with soldiers crossing a meadow
  • Stretcher-bearers carrying a wounded man under an aircraft wing
  • A column of soldiers crossing a footbridge over water
  • A soldier holding up a shell in a trench