OPENING CREDITS

The credits that travel across the screen simulate the movement of the “Five Rites” yoga postures. The words play off the “Five Rites” animated cartoons drawings of Sophie doing the “five rites”. The title sequence is broken up into five animated style sections. Also the cartoon drawing of the female and letters start out old and decrepit in appearance and evolve into a sexy female figure with chic, elegant and then hip looking letters for the whole Opening Credit sequence.

The words start off with the first rite by spinning clockwise 21 times. We see the animated old lady putting her walker aside and slowly spinning like ballerina or a child playing in the grass clockwise 21 times.

For the second rite the titles start out flat and the last half of the title folds perpendicular to the stationary letters. The animated figure looks less decrepit and is on her back and simultaneously lifts her head and looks at her chest as she lifts her legs perpendicular to her torso and that back down 21 times.

For the third rite, the second half of the word is perpendicular and bends back towards the first half of the title at a forty-five degree angle, back and forth, multiple times. The animated blond hair Sophie with streaks of gray who looks middle age now is on her knees holding her hips and arching back and forth multiple times.

For the forth rite, the title starts in seated position with the first word perpendicular to the second word which then starts moving back and forth as it moves from an ”L” shape to a table or inverted “U”. The animated lady has healthy features of a toned forty year old as she starts sitting up with her arm by her side and legs out stretched and then lifts her whole body into a perpendicular table to the ground and slides back down again.

Finally the titles with the fifth rite start out flat on the screen and move back and forth between a straight line and an inverted “V”. The vibrant female cartoon with Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” features starts on her belly in yoga cobra pose and lifts her butt in the air in downward dog pose, back and forth multiple times. Each animated pose become more elegant and technically correct.

Ruth Anne Wood ©2001-2009 Registered with the WGAE