Thursday 31 March 2011

What fonts did we use?

Naomi chose a range of fonts that she thought would be good to use for our film, taking into consideration the horror genre, and which fonts would best suit that. Then she bought them in to show us and we all said which one we liked best and then chose the one which had the most votes.

Font for subtitles and credits-






In the end we chose:
Dotum Che


We all agreed that the simplicity of this one made it perfect for putting it into our film, it is very plain, and has slight gaps between the letters, which to me brings a sense of mystery and for some reason reminds me of ghosts and the paranormal, which is a good thing considering that both those things are associated with horror and horror movies.

Fonts for the title: 


This font is similar to that of the font that we chose to have for our subtitles and credits. The similarity being that it is very simple and the letters are spaced out. I do like this font, but in a way it is a bit too similar to the other one to have it for the main title, it might look as if we actually used the same one, therefore looking as if we didn't look into other fonts. 
This font wasn't one that we looked at and thought 'yes that would be good to use' because it doesn't immediately scream out 'use me in a horror film' it says 'use me in a sci-fi film' but it would relate to the clock that we have at the beginning of the film, because this font is the same as what is shown on a digital clock, but for the overall film it just wasn't right.

When we saw this one we instantly thought how good it looked! the letters vary in size and the detail on them resembles a decaying house in a way, falling to pieces, maybe a bit old and dusty. as opposed to the previous font, this one does leap out as a font that would be used in a horror film, but Naomi thought that the font had too much going on and that it might be better if we had something a little simpler, and we agreed with what she thought, and i then added the comment of "Less is more" which pretty much sums up the effect we were looking for, which means that this font also wasn't right despite it being a very good font for horror, just not for ours.
This is the font that we decided to use in the end! after seeing it in the finished product it looked right and fit in perfectly with the action and the overall mood of the film. i like how the letters are quite tall and very close together, it isn't as simple as the font we used for our subtitles and credits, but it hasn't got lots going on either, it is just right, which is why we used it. I am really happy that we ended up using this font!

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