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Our current golden age of TV is also a golden age of TV title sequences.
The recreations are meticulous, and resemble their eras down to the smallest detail.
They make me so happy.
That was decided before I even joined the project.
Once I joined I realized we needed to get a songwriting team in to create those, Shakman says.
So I reached out to him and his amazing wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Thats how we got them onboard.
For the episodes titles, they were obviously riffing onBewitchedand stuff, Shakman says.
Getting it right was a long-term process that involved a great deal of back-and-forth collaboration.
We had a bunch of ideas to pitch them, and then they started storyboarding it.
It changed and evolved a lot over time.
The whole creative team, including the Lopezes and Schaeffer, grew up watching those shows, too.
We had so many common references for that.
Its just in our DNA.
Naturally, Shakman followed suit.
It was important to us to capture that vibe.
But its not justFamily Ties.
The crane itself is a basic tool on big-budget Marvel blockbusters, but not so much on sitcoms.
But they had to have the crane for this, Shakman says, because they had it onFull House!
He offered, sweetly, some of his baby pictures, and they were perfect.
When he first got the temp VFX mocked up for them, he remembers, he lost it.
I just laughed and laughed and laughed, seeing the Baby Vision shots.
I showed them to everyone on set on my phone.
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For Shakman, nailing these specific details was critical.
It was so important.
Everything had to be authentic, he says.
But these worlds are not parody.
Notably, however, the episodes title sequence doesnt mimicModern Familys.
But it just didnt make sense for us.
That the show would start using stingers once it reached the 2010s was deliberate.
By the end of that episode, weve busted out of the television construct.
I just loved everything aboutAgatha All Along, Shakman laughs.
