Font Idea and chosen idea

As a group we decided to analyse a few thriller films in order to look the opening credits, so we would know what to include in our thriller. The two films we looked at were Natural Born Killers and Saw VI.  Looking at these films we noticed Natural Born Killers used a bold type font which we felt had an intimidating appeal which shows the audience it is a thriller film. The colour of the font in both films were white, this is eye catching towards the audience and stands out against the dark background.

My group decided to look at the following fonts and to review their settings and appeal to find out if they would be a prime idea for our production.





This font looks very sharp and bold, it looks like a typically font used in thriller films. I think the sharp edgy look of this font is appropriate as it informs the audience that the film could be a thriller. Our group liked the way the “H” at the beginning shows a long sharp leg which reminds the audience of a knife; this was a main candidate of our font idea.

This type of font is very imaginative and creative as the audience sees that it fades from the bottom from grey down to upwards white, furthermore shows a smoky misty affect as a borderline around the font. This font looks ghostly which doesn’t look like a generic convention of a type of thriller but more as a horror.





This font looks dark, blunt and creative, the font feels intimidating and strange but also looks noble this bringing light to what type of character our villain is also this is a prime idea resemblance of what type of font we should have as it creates an airy dull feeling towards the audience appearing menacing.

My group decided by after analysing these thriller openings and fonts we needed to create credits that suited are production’s narrative, genre (thriller) and target audience. Below are all the ideas we came up with of are font ideas

• Sharp intense red font, medium font size
• Bold black font
• Arabic long size
• Smart threating hand writing

After each member of our group suggested ideas for our font design we came to two final ideas that we was fond of, which was my idea of a sharp intense red font and Daniel’s Smart threating hand writing design. Our group wished to create a design which would appeal to thriller and stand together with are shots and sharp soundtrack.

 

In conclusion having analysed a variety of thriller films in the end we decided to combine both ideas for one final idea thus our font was both a sharp and an intense red also it had the settings of smart writing which was similar to the last font we reviewed. Our font was generic thriller type of credits because it introduced a jagged, sharp, intense or bold red text. The design was created on Final Cut Pro. The font is a main focus of production as it is used to be eye catching towards the audience so they may visualise the credits passing by but as the audience see the credits the type of font is important so we understand what genre it is from the beginning for example by seeing just the production name with the help of the font we understand what type of genre it is. The font we used  attracted our target audience because of the sharp red colour which looked dangerous while the smart text was disturbing this making are young audience excited also nervous of the events soon to come in our production.