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Whilst analysing other film opened we recognised that, conventionally, only the director and production companies are shown at the start of the film: this is often to draw the audience attention away from the production element and create the sense of realism as well as keeping audience focus on the narrative. it also helps the audience to not be distracted from their suspence. Despite this, we have decided to go away from that convention and include more titles in our opening. We believe that as a result of us doing a montage, titles would allow us to play around with graphics and add to the atmosphere rather than distract. We feel we can add to the effect created by adding credits in. we plan to 'scatter' the titles around our images

This is the order in which our titles will appear:

  • Title

  • Directer

  • Actors

  • Costume designer

  • Sound editor

  • Writer

  • Music Editor

Our main inspiration for our credits comes from the film Se7en (1995). We saw that the way the credits are presented is very effective as they do not distract the audience and add to the atmosphere and suspense the producer wanted to feel. The overlapped titles scatter and jump across the images and black pages. we liked this idea and have chosen to use it as our inspiration.

Typography Research

In the majority of all the psychological thrillers I analysed small, white, capitalised font was used often on a black background. This reflects the contrast/fight between bad and good often percieved in thriller films. We have chosen to use this also within our typography as we decided it is an important recurrence within psychological thrillers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Font for Title

The first font we wanted to decide on was for the title of our psychological thriller- 'Pest'. We feel this name is appropriate and co-insides with our theme of stalking and an 'unwanted visitor'. The 'st' is also audibly creepy and disturbing as it creates a harsh sound and makes the audience feel angry and irritated. We knew we wanted something bold and visually disorientating but still legible. We narrowed it down to two options:

Extra Blur

This font is bold and eyecatching. The blurred effect ties in with our use of modern day technology in the film (the use of facebook profiles and online stalking). If this word was longer or our title was more wordy I think that this font would be much too overpowering, but the font works for the short, snappy, single word and is effective. This is the font liked most by our audience so we have chosen to use this font as our title.

 

Pulse Sans Virgin

This font is also very eyecatching and the sporadic angles are disorientating for the viewer. The lifeline running through the word gives the connotations of hospitals and illness which worries the audience for what is to come. One critisicsm I have for this font is that it could be mistaken as more typical to the horror genre. 

Font for Credits

This is the main font our group has chosen for our credits. The physical disturbance in the simple font reflects the disturbance we wish our audience to feel. The sans serif font is conventional to the thriller genre as well as being clean and professional looking.   

 

We then looked at fonts to layer over Headshot whilst editing to create the disturbing, unstable atmosphere we desire. This font looks conventionally horror (serif, inconsistent thickness, etc.) and- in some cases- can be quite difficult to read. Therefore we would only use this layed over the top of Headshot to add variety and contrast. 

 

This font is another which we plan to layer with headshot. The sporadity and variation in size and angles is visibally disorientating for the audience which will emphasise the unsettling editing techniques we plan to use. We feel this will be very effective. 

Headshot:
Angel:
Artifact:

The research was completed by Phoebe on the 11th of December

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