Titles And Credits• Titles and credits from real films:

• The Ring

• Se7en

• Rosemary's Baby

• Stephen King's "IT"

• Frankenstein (1931)

Titles And Credits of ‘The Ring’

• The font appears hand written A handwritten style font would emphasise the ‘mental illness’ aspect of our film as the text would appear messy and scattered, as if written by someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable)

• The ‘O’s in the text match the ring of the well in the film

• This emphasise the theme of the film, which has inspired us to use a font style which gives clues to the audience as to what our film will be about without giving too much away.

Titles And Credits of ‘Se7ev’

• Similarly to ‘The Ring’, ‘Se7en’ also has handwritten style fonts that are often spaced out or slanted.

• The most inspiring thing about ‘Se7en’ is the animation of the text.

• The quick bright flashes of the text create excitement for the audience and keep them on the edge of their

seat which is essential for thriller films and has inspired us to display our text in a similar way.

Titles And Credits of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

• The font style and colour are somewhat unusual as it does not link with anything in the movie. This could be down to the time the film was made. During the 60s technology was not as developed.

• However the fact that its so uncommon for a Horror/Thriller, makes it unique and unpredictable.

• This has inspired us to use a font not normally associated with Thrillers to make it as unpredictable as possible.

• Baby pink colour, however symbolises

the innocence of Rosemary’s character.

•Similarly, our main character also

possesses a sense of innocence.

Titles And Credits of Stephen King’s ‘IT’

The title of the film is the only text in this colour (bright red) and font style.

This makes the title stand out from the rest of the text highlighting the significance of the ‘IT’ character to intrigue the audience.

The bright red symbolises blood and gore therefore attracting the target audience as it is common in Horror/Thrillers.

The small cuts and slits within the letters emphasis the violence in the movie as they represent stabs and scratches.

Titles And Credits of ‘Frankenstein’ (1931)

• The inconsistency of the text style could be used to disorientate the audience and perhaps panic them and keep them on the edge of their seat.

•Each piece of text is written in a different font, confusing the

audience yet still intriguing them.

•Also used for once sentence.

•Each word is a different font.

• The different fonts represent the way that ‘Frankenstein’ was made up of different parts just

like the text.

The colour of Our Text

•At fist we considered using a deep red font colour as it is usually associated with Horrors/Thrillers.

‘What Lies Within’ •We wanted the bright

red to symbolise blood to our audience in order to emphasise the gore in our film and opening sequence.

• However once we changed our opening sequence from a Horror to a Thriller we decided that a colour associated with blood and gore would not be appropriate plus too common and predictable.

The colour of Our Text

‘What Lies Within’

In a similar way we decided that white would be the best option for us as it resembles something pure.

We then took inspiration from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ which uses a baby pink to signify her characters innocence.

We want the white text to emphasise the innocence of our main character

The Font of Our Text• After exploring different fonts from real films and

opening credits we narrowed our favourites down to:

• Block Capitals e.g.

ARIAL BLACK

• This could represent a sense of seriousness about the film. The houses being built where a Mental Institution once was. The fire that was used to cover a murder.

The Font of Our Text

• Handwritten style Font e.g.

• We would use this to resemble the mental state of the characters by making the writing as unstructured and disorientated as possible.

Bradley Hand ITC

InformalCasual

•The less structured it is the more

emphasis on the mental

state

The Font of Our Text

• Old Fashioned Font e.g.

• This could emphasises the time period of when the Mental Hospital was running. It gives the audience an insight to the film.

Brush Script MTFormal

Elegant

Resembles an older

time period

Our final Font style and colour• We finally narrowed it down to the font we felt was most

appropriate for our opening sequence and genre. • We wanted something that gave little clues about the film

but not too much and wasn’t too predictable. • We decided on a handwritten style font as we hoped this

would emphasise the ‘mental illness’ theme of our film as the text would appear messy and scattered, as if written by someone in panic or distress, (mentally unstable).

• Inspired by ‘The Ring’ and ‘Se7en’

• We were also inspired by ‘Se7en’ to make the text flash onto the screen and fade away.