Font and Titlesby Ciaran

What I Learnt About Titles For Zombies

Always Sans Serif

Always big and bold text

I notice that the colours varied a lot but they didn't stand out too much against the images in the background

They were often either Black, Dark Red or Cream/Brown. This gave it a dark, dirty look adding to the dark atmosphere and the sense of abandonment.

We want to have no movement to our text as most of the zombie opening title sequences had no movement

We will have ours cut on screen and the wipe out similar to that of "The Walking Dead"

Fonts

As we want to create our credits in final cut pro, we can only use the fonts in final cut and based on that we narrowed it down to these fonts:

Arial Black

*Bank Gothic* - (Powerpoint does not have Bank Gotic Font)

Century Gothic

Lucida Sans Unicode

Verdana

Tahoma

Colour, Size, Animation and Placement

We will be using Black, Brown/Dark red and white to contrast to the background but not to stand out too much so we don't draw the attention away from the clips

The title will be in big bold writing against a black background to make it the part that stands out the most in the OTS while the names of the crew will be smaller bold text and their jobs will be in an even smaller regular text

Preferably we dont want any movement, however we feel that a small crawl could also look effective (as seen in The Walking Dead)

We will be placing our text in unused, negative, space. This will ensure nothing from the main clip is being hidden and that the text doesnt draw the viewers attention while still being readable

We want the text to appear on screen as the clip cuts to another clip and then wipe away

Examples and Inspiration

As shown in these 2 pictures, there is a slow

crawl which we feel could look effective

We like the idea of using a contrasting colour in

negative space for credits

We will be using a plain black background and big bold text for our title as it

is the most important part of our OTS

Examples and Inspiration

We noticed that the text size in all 3 of these OTSs varied between the crew members name being larger than their job

We like the idea of text wiping out or slowly fading as it could connote a decay of life which would match our genre