Fonts for the titles

Examples of font Titles:

The font for the thriller opening is very important as it is the part of the thriller that people remember and will see and will recognise it by this. This means that the font, size and colour has a huge impact on what the font looks like and how appealing it is. Also, it makes it eye catching for the audience and will eventually make them want to watch it. The font has a huge impact on suggesting what the movie is going to be about and what it is going to be like.

The Butterfly Effect:

The title of "The Butterfly Effect" is very effective as it is in front of a skull showing that it has something to do with someone's mental health and psychological issues . The background is dark to suggest that someone dark is happening that will be answered further on in the opening. The name of the film is in a lighter colour of blue which stands out against the blue skull and the black background. The title is also in bold letters which is very eye catching to make the audience want to watch on. This font is very successful as it suggests the uncertainty that someone is having some psychological problems.

Gone Girl:

In the thriller movie "Gone Girl" the font is very successful as it is very bold to stand out to the audience to be the drawing point of which people see and want to watch. The part of the title "GONE" is in bold writing to suggest the emphasis that someone has gone missing which is going to be a major part of the film. This also creates an alarming feel for the audience as they start to worry about who has gone missing.

The Women In Black:

In the thriller film "The Women in Black" the title is in bold writing to suggest a stand out as a clue of something that the audience need to look out for. The font is white which is opposite to the black that stands out against the dark, black background. The writing looks smeared which suggests to the audience the ghostly presence that someone is always there in the background.

Overall, the fonts that I have looked at have all been in bold and had white writing to stand out against the dark background as a stereotypical thriller film is dark to suggest something is about to happen. I will now talk to my group about the different suggestions that they have researched and what fonts they like the most.

The name of our thriller opening:

We originally decided that we would call our thriller opening "24 hours" which we felt was a short and catchy title  that enabled the audience to have an interpretation of what is going to happen in the film without telling them exactly what is going to happen. However, when we researched this name on the internet we found there was already a well known film named this and we wanted to make sure that it was original and not copyright.

Another idea that we had to call it was "diminishing hope" which was suggested by somebody who was looking at our thriller opening. We originally all really liked this name as we felt like it was very original and suggested the fact that the children were missing and their parents had no idea they were gone to suggest the hope of finding them was getting narrower by the second. After much thought about the name we decided that the name was just too long and didn't flow very well when we put it at the end of our opening. Overall, I decided that when I was researching the different titles of thriller films I realised that they were all very short and simple to be catchy for the audience which is why we decided against this idea.

We then decided on a shorter more catchier title of "Hours" as we felt that this was short but also was able to represent the fact that the children had been taken. After much thought we decided not to go with this title as we felt that it was to simple and didn't stand out to people what in fact the movie was going to be about. We then thought about the statistics that we had added at the beginning of thriller opening. We then realised that it would be important to add the "24" to the hours to represent to the audience that the statistics show that if a child is still missing after 24 hours they're more likely to be dead. We then eventually decided that it would be a good idea to go with "24 hours left" which is still short and catchy but also not to long.

The finalised idea that we decided to go with is "24 Hours Left" as the idea of our thriller is of missing children and statistic say that after 24 hours, "the chances of a stolen kid being returned are forever diminishing". We felt that this was a good link to make the audience see the suggestion of the time and the children missing. Overall, I feel that this title is a very good title as it is short and catchy but also gives a clue to the audience about what may happen to them.

Main font (24 Hours Left):

We are using iMovie to edit our thriller opening so we decided that we would look at the titles that are used as a template for the titles. We first of all looked at the different titles that we could use for the name of the thriller. We looked at several ideas but decided that we liked "Expand" the best as I looked quite simple but the font looked very good with the name that we wanted to call it. When I did some research on the titles of films I realised that many of them had a black background to set the scene of what the film was going to be about and to link to the thriller aspect of the opening. We liked our name in the title, however we wanted to add a transition to make the font appear better than just have it come onto the screen. We found a transition that looked like it wobbled around on the screen to suggest the uneasiness that the mum and dad are feeling as they don't know where the children have gone. I think that the title looks very effective and the transition adds to the effect that the title has. When I looked into the music of the opening I looked into different sound effects that I could add to the title to make when the title come on be the climax of the opening after seeing the children being taken. I got this idea from openings that I have researched as they have mostly got a sound added to the title to make it be used as more of a climax to the opening.  The size of the font is 112 as it is a big size to make it cover the whole of the page and stand out to people wanting to watch the movie.

Another example of where we used the fonts on iMovie were the titles that we used for the production, editor etc in the right hand side of the screen. We wanted to make the font clear to read and also in a white font as many of our shots are of the darker colour. Furthermore, when I researched openings of thriller films many of them used a white font for the names as they stand out to the audience looking but not to much to distract them from watching what is going on.  We have decided to follow the theme of the first word of the name to be in a smaller font than the surname as this makes it easier for the audience to tell people apart from one another. The first name is in size 94 and the second name is in size 112.The font that we chose to use I believe looks very effective and really shows clear the roles but not to obvious to make the audience only look at them a that's not what we wanted. I added all of the titles at the bottom of the screen and made sure that they all were the same size and font each time for the production names and the actors.