Graphics

As our film is a psychological thriller, we drew inspiration from the title of Se7en, by David Fincher, for our graphics. This title is dynamic due to its simplicity yet distorted effect. The title is a sans serif font, but then is distorted to blur the edges and it is mirrored behind it. It's as if the title is mirrored behind to relate to the meaning of the film, se7en- seven times.


We then wanted to try this type of creepy font on our own graphics. As we've be considering the title of our film to be "Blackout", we tried this on dafont.com to see how it would look. However, after trying these, we were less sure on the overall effect of them. They felt more like your typical horror/thriller title and we wanted to convey an almost scary simplicity in the title.

When exploring graphics, art of the title was very useful when looking for inspiration for our film. It collates the opening scenes of many popular films and TV series and shows them as stills. This allowed us to see a visual medium to try to work out what we would like to convey though the font. artofthetitle.com also writes about the background of the film, and has the productions studios reasons to the style and choice of their opening title sequence. 

From the first time i watched american horror story, i was immediately impressed by the iconic opening sequence. This sequence is replayed at the beginning of every episode and so need to be memorable and convey the horror shown in the series 

Even though we do not need to make opening credits, i found the site very useful in terms of inspiration for graphics for our title and the way we might portray it 

From looking at multiple film graphics, we realised that we wanted to use a font that looked modern and edgy, yet if shown in the right context, (at the end of our thriller opening scene), would look terrifying. These were some of the titles we liked the most:  

Basic Title 

Mesmerize

We really liked the font "Neou"as it made the letters spaced out and bold. 

We were also thinking about what we would like our title to be, and came up with "Strobe". we felt this reflected the party scene proposed in our opening and as a flash turns on and off rapidly, shows how quickly things can change. We tried the font "neou" on both of our possible titles:

Neou

However we didn't like the "R" on Strobe and so if we choose this title, we are unlikely to use the font 'Neou'.

Neou