Font Choices for Titles

This is a very important piece of research to do as this is the font which expresses our film of ' The Woods'. This font has to be perfect to express the genre of the film and to suit what occurs within it.

This was our initial idea; we liked how it was clear however had a creepy an scary effect to it as it looked a little pix-elated and had a few white scratches going across some of the letters. It also look quite formal which made us decide that we wanted our final idea to look formal and not tacky to make sure it attracts the right audience and suits the genre (horror) and doesn't create a wrong message towards the audience. The one thing we didn't like about this title was that we thought it was quite thin writing. We made sure that our next design would be a lot more bold to make sure it stands outs and links into our film plot. In order to make this font we looked through a variety of ready made titles so we could get an idea of what we wanted and then designed and made it on paint and photo shop. This made sure that we got the right look that we wanted at that time however it was not exactly what we wanted.


This was our second idea. In order to make it we used paint to begin with so we could use shapes and paint to make the design we wanted and then used photo shop to crop and make sure it was up to scratch. We reflected this idea off of our initial idea as we knew we then wanted to make it a lot more bold to ensure it stands out well. We also decided we wanted to have the background of the text to be black and the writing to be white as we thought it pursued more of a creepy effect and also would look better when we put it in our film as we are making it seem tense when the titles bang in making it give a fright to the audience. Although we liked the way the writing is set our we still didn't think it was perfect.

This is the third font we found, which has many effects. This fonts suggests that the someone has written on the screen in blood due to the dripping effect and the smurring effect. However from my 'Font research' Blog from analysing fonts from published horrors, I found that in the past; horror films would have this style this would suggest blood dripping. However in now-a-days this is seen as tacky and exaggerated, which is not what we want our film to be like. This means this font may not be used due to previous research.  

This is our final idea. We related both our initial idea and our second idea to make this final one that we all liked. The have used the layout of the second idea and as we liked how on the initial idea, there were scratches going across some of the letters. We wanted to add that into it and make it more obvious and exaggerated. This meant it looks even more scary and link into the name of our film "The Woods" as it can come across like the scratches are branches or bits of mud covering parts of the letters. It order to make these scratched, we added the title into paint and used the tools or he paint brush and pencil to make the effect of scratches and splats. This took us a while as it was very hard to make it look effective without it looking like they are plain straight lines cutting up the letters.