Font notes

In Leanne's lesson we began talking about font types and a class analysis of a few title sequences.

Catch Me If You Can
-Smooth
-Flowy
-Sense of constant movement (characters are constantly moving/running away)
-2 fonts represent two different characters
San serif font - outlaw, the font is changing and moving
serif font - official, government, western? FBI Agent
-clear fonts, easy to read
-Saul Bass esque (lines and colour)

Lord of War
-White font - dark background
-Small, centered
-Bullet - dehumanises - not attached to characters
-San serif font
-Soviet writing - Russian, cold war, warish
-military cap letters (serious, no humour, unemotional)
-printed in metal
-Actors names - centered, lesser actors and crew to side
-roles - simplier - rounded, constrast

Forrest Gump
-Serif font
-plain, long (stretched)
-white - purity
-older- more traditional font/film
-newsprint
-slow paced, soft and steady, gentle
-fades in, soft and gentle
-large font, centered

Fonts

Fonts

From our questionnaire, we had decided that this font was our favourite, however we had decided to play around with the font top make it more interesting. 

This is our font plain. As a group we think that this is a little plain and boring. 

I thought it would look great if there was a shadow, however as a group we decided that the light grey/white shadow makes the font look too comedic. 

Using the same shadow idea, we changed it so that there was a darker red shadow. Aiden likes this version of the font. 

As another design with the shadow idea, we changed the shadow to a dark grey. Louis likes this version. 

I am unsure as to which version I like. I think we should wait until Terry sees this (as he is absent today) and see which he prefers out of our final two. 

UPDATE: Terry came back in and decided that the one with a dark grey shadow over the red. 

Group Research

During one of our groups breaks and free lessons, we started to begin thinking about what sounds we would use within our title seqeunce.

These are some uncopyrighted tracks we are considering to use for the soundtrack. We are thinking about layering some of the tracks over each other, or even recording noises and making a song from that (showing the humour element in our film).




This is the sort of make up we want our zombie's to look like, maybe not as much detail like the boils and the veins, but definitely the dark eyes and emphasis on the chest.


We are thinking about use zombie screeches/cries during our title sequence. This is what we want our zombies to sound like, however we will record our own zombie noises.

 

Logo, Audience Profile, Codes and Conventions, Analysis of Title Sequence

This week in Leanne's class, within our film groups we were set four tasks to complete:

-Research the codes and conventions of horror, paying attention to title sequences

 

-Write an audience profile (primary and secondary) for your film's target audience

 

-Analyse one sequence from chosen genre individually and one as a group. Note any features to include in own work. 

 

-Invent a production company and design a logo for it. 

This is our logo for our production company; it is a combination of our first initials (Terry, Aiden, Louis, Lauren). As our production comapny produce films within the horror genre we decided to use simplistic and dark colours.

Codes and Conventions:

-low key lighting

-faint images

-foreshadowing of bloodshed

-isolation

-scenery – rural

-foreshadowing

-killer – glimpse of character

-sets equilibrium

-knife – foreshadowing – physical weapons

-medical imagery – experiments

-dark clothing, not suits, jeans and t-shirts, trainers

-hand held – shaky

-close ups

-tracking

-point of view shots

-low and high angle shots

-pan movement

-establishing – isolation

Features to include with title sequence:

• Handheld footage
• Generally slow paced editing (slow motion)
• Orchestral music
• Connotations of blood
• Connotations of weapons

Conventions of Title Sequence

Conventions of Title Sequence

THIS WILL BE USEFUL WHEN MAKING TITLE SEQUENCE!!!!