Opening credits and animated graphics for the Paramount & Chilevisión documentary series based on the declassified CIA files regarding the Chilean military coup.
(CLIENT)
Paramount
(SERVICES)
Design
Motion Design
VFX
Broadcast design
Branding
he challenge lay in transforming thousands of pages of dry documents and declassified photocopies into a visually captivating narrative. We had to represent the painstaking work of researcher Peter Kornbluh, who has spent decades piecing together a puzzle of missing parts. The goal was to visually capture abstract concepts like "elusive truth," conspiracy, and censorship, ensuring that static documents came to life and conveyed the urgency and weight of hidden history.
We explored an aesthetic based on "fragmentation" and the "inaccessible." We used real photocopy textures, classification stamps, and animation that plays with elements sliding and disappearing, symbolizing the difficulty of finding the absolute truth. We created an "incomplete puzzle" visual language through digital layers that overlap and reveal information organically. This solution allowed the historical archive to feel dynamic and contemporary, linking the documentary past with international standard visual craftsmanship.
We delivered a powerful and evocative opening sequence that sets the investigative and mysterious tone required for the series. The animated graphics served not only as an aesthetic frame but as a narrative tool that helped the audience grasp the complexity of the declassified archives. The collaboration with Paramount and Chilevisión resulted in a piece of high historical and visual value that has been key to the documentary's identity, reinforcing the atmosphere of revelation and memory.
