Technical planning - Font research

Font research for your titles

Font plays a big part in a title sequence, this is because its a way to give the audience an idea of what the whole film is about.

I like this text because of the boldness within the lettering, they really stand out while still containing a spooky aspect to it. Also the way the lettering drips down also is really effective because it reminds me of blood and the element of blood dripping down a wall or something so it contains that aspect of horror.

I like this font because of the scratched effect it has on it and the way the lettering flicks off in a direction really makes it stand out whilst looking all over the place and also looking like someone or something has been clawing at it.

This font is similar to the other two however its more solid whilst still containg a scratched effect to it and this is good because it still has spooky feel to it whilst being clear and it clearly shows the genre of the film.

Most font is quite bold and sharp when it comes to Gothic horror titles, this is because it stands out and the sharpness of the text implies that there is still a sense of danger within this story. Most of the text also has quite a spooky design to it which helps represent Gothic horrors because of the supernatural elements that are present within these films.

Here are some font ideas we tried using

During the creation of our movie we tried and looked at a few different fonts to use within our title sequence, we thought this one above would be good to use because it was bold, jagged and looked like something or someone had been scratching at it, this made it conform to other common Gothic Horror texts like the ones shown above and we also thought it did work well in out film.

This font was another one we found, it is a bit similar to the one above however we wanted one which had similarities with the common Gothic Horror fonts, this one looked a bit more modern than the other because of how it looked more broken than scratched and it had more straighter lines and edges within it that the other. However it was still bold and effective.

This was another font we looked at, we liked it because of how all the letters were different shapes and it had the effect of being broken up. However we thought it looked to modern and was not really fitting with our film genre.

In the end, we chose the top font to be the one featured within our movie piece because it had elements of all the other fonts within it, however it also looked more old and represented the horror side of font more because of the jagged edges it had, it also really matched other common Gothic Horror fonts.