Neopol Film Neonstaub

A history of the Reeperbahn needed titles that didn't read as a generic true-crime package — something built from the era's own neon signage and archival photography rather than a type treatment standing in for it.

Build the show's own logotype as if it were hanging on the street itself — a hand-lettered script rendered as a lit neon sign, animated into a drone shot of the district at night — then carry that same real-signage, real-archive logic into every credit card that follows.

The Neonstaub logotype was built and lit as a neon-tube animation, tracked and composited into aerial drone footage of the Reeperbahn at night. Each credit then runs as its own small collage — archival black-and-white photography layered onto aged paper and document textures, with a second neon sign (Star Club, Cuneo) picking up the same red glow as the main title, so the identity reads as one system across the full opening rather than a single static card.

Sourcing and cleaning up archival photography is still a research job, not a generation one - the whole point is that it's real. What's faster now is testing how a neon-tube material and a composite hold up over many different archival plates before committing to the final animation pass.

Neon-logo build and animation, aerial-footage compositing and grade, and an archival collage system carried across the full opening-credits sequence.