Typography Analysis

For our production me and Chloe will need to include our names, our actor's names and probably a made up team of all the usual job titles that are normally in an opening title sequence. For this we will need to choose our typography for this and also our main titles of what the film is called: Blank. We'll need to choose a font that is relevant to the time period of Film Noirs that we'd be able to see by looking into previous Film Noirs. I am very familiar with Da Font, a catalog of font sets available online for free at dafont.com. On this website we could find the font we want or at least just research through possibilities. Me and Chloe have planned to have our main credits on the labels of cassette tapes, this links to the narrative as our main protagonist records what he saw in his dreams on tapes similar to these. However I have never downloaded a font from Da Font and converted it so it's available to use on iMovie. This will be something I need to research into how to do this. The first slide of this SlideShare is of some examples of Film Noir titles, as you can see they're very varied in fonts but all have in common that they're easy to read and quite thick as if they're bold. The second slide is of the website Da Font and what comes up when you search 'blank'. On the third slide is some possible ideas of what typography we could use, font number 6 and 8 is probably my favourites as they're the thickest and easiest to read. Numbers 2 and 11 are too swirly for Film Noir but probably look the creepiest. 

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Typography ideas for OTS of Film Noir production from Emily Ventress

Reflective Comment: This is the typical Film Noir typography I analysed. I thought this would be useful when Chloe comes to making the titles, when I make the ident and when we both come to making the credits. Although there isn't many fonts to choose from on Blogger I showed more in the Slideshare and also how they are quite accessible via programs such as DaFont.com. However after writing this I attempted to download one of these fonts and it is quite difficult via an Apple Mac computer and I am yet to discover how to get them on iMovie. I also realise how on page 3 of the Slideshare that fonts 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 do not show. I don't know why this is but after trying twice to get them to show it isn't working. 

Me and Chloe have now tested many different fonts and have gone with a scratched looking effect to fit with our Neo Noir horror theme. We based these partly on a trailer Chloe Smith had recently seen and told me about. It's off of the trailer for The Purge 3: Election Year | Official US Trailer (2016). We liked these as they flicker before becoming apparent what it says, this makes the audience feel uncomfortable as the text is distorted and then you see for a split second what it really says.

Titles Ideas from Emily Ventress

The first one we felt was too light and contrasted too much with our footage. The second I had made where I put the text on a document in white with a back background then screen shotted these after moving them, I put them on iMovie for 0.2 seconds each, but these are too slow moving and not creepy enough. The third one is actually out of our final piece as we liked this one. These were made by Chloe scratching paper with a compass, going over it in pencil and silver pen all on black paper and taking a picture of it. I then made the background darker using the colour levels on iMovie and put it at 0.1 second. I then removed the background of these using Photoshop and moved it slightly, repeated this about 9 times into the pattern I liked, saved all these picture separately then put them all 0.1 second after another. I really liked this effect and we continued it throughout our credits. However we realised we'd need one of the names to have a job role of director as that is conventional for the main credits in an opening title sequence.