As our film is a psychological thriller, we drew inspiration from the title of Se7en, by David Fincher, for our graphics. This title is dynamic due to its simplicity yet distorted effect. The title is a sans serif font, but then is distorted to blur the edges and it is mirrored behind it. It's as if the title is mirrored behind to relate to the meaning of the film, se7en- seven times.
We then wanted to try this type of creepy font on our own graphics. As we've be considering the title of our film to be "Blackout", we tried this on dafont.com to see how it would look. However, after trying these, we were less sure on the overall effect of them. They felt more like your typical horror/thriller title and we wanted to convey an almost scary simplicity in the title.
We then wanted to try this type of creepy font on our own graphics. As we've be considering the title of our film to be "Blackout", we tried this on dafont.com to see how it would look. However, after trying these, we were less sure on the overall effect of them. They felt more like your typical horror/thriller title and we wanted to convey an almost scary simplicity in the title.
When exploring graphics, art of the title was very useful when
looking for inspiration for our film. It collates the opening scenes of many
popular films and TV series and shows them as stills. This allowed us to see a
visual medium to try to work out what we would like to convey though the font.
artofthetitle.com also writes about the background of the film, and has the
productions studios reasons to the style and choice of their opening title
sequence.
From the first time i
watched American horror story, i was immediately impressed by the iconic
opening sequence. This sequence is replayed at the beginning of every episode
and so need to be memorable and convey the horror shown in the series. Even
though we do not need to make opening credits, i found the site very useful in
terms of inspiration for graphics for our title and the way we might portray
our opening.
From looking at multiple film graphics, we realised that we wanted to use a font that looked modern and edgy, yet if shown in the right context, (at the end of our thriller opening scene), would look terrifying. These were some of the titles we liked the most:
Basic Title
Mesmerize
Neou
Neou
Me and Emma have decided our favourite font for the title of 'Strobe' is Mesmerize, simply because Basic Title was too narrow and we hated the 'R' of Neou. However, the title 'Blackout' was suited best to Neou because we loved the thin quality of the lines and the simplicity. We think these choices will make a very clean title, especially if we are going to use effect and have it flash across the screen, flickering almost eerily like a strobe would.
