13 Facts About Dan Perri

Daniel Richard Perri was born on August 11,1945 and is an American film and television title sequence designer.

At the age of twelve Dan Perri set up a small sign painting business on Long Island, selling signage to local stores, markets bars and restaurants.

At school, Dan Perri's talents were fostered by his art teacher, Barbara Brooks, a former Madison Avenue advertising agency art director who had moved into teaching.

Dan Perri encouraged him to read books, design manuals, and various advertising industry publications such as Graphis publications and Communication Arts magazine.

Dan Perri made contact with the film graphics designer Saul Bass and began to pester him for work at his studio on Sunset Boulevard.

Dan Perri produced an unusual, kitschy sequence inspired by low-budget K-Tel Records television commercials, complete with a loud, brash voiceover by Johnny Grant.

Dan Perri took second unit footage and colour-treated the film through a process of film copying and slit-scan, resulting in a highly stylised graphic sequence that evoked the "underbelly" of New York City through lurid colours, glowing neon signs distorted nocturnal images and deep black levels, accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's jazz soundtrack.

Lucas briefed Dan Perri to take inspiration from old 1930s cinema serials such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers that had inspired Lucas to write much of his Star Wars story.

Lucas approved of the idea and Dan Perri produced sketches and prototype mechanical artwork, supported by storyboard artwork drawn by the production artist Alex Tavoularis.

Dan Perri designed a logotype, consisting of block-capital letters filled with stars and skewed towards a vanishing point to follow the same perspective as the opening crawl.

Dan Perri has stated that Lucas offered him a share of royalties from the film in lieu of his ordinary fee; Dan Perri rejected the offer and has since regretted his choice.

Dan Perri worked for Scorsese again in 1980, designing a title sequence for Raging Bull.

In 2018, Dan Perri produced the logotype and main title sequence for Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria.