When deciding on the font for my opening sequence I looked at film similar to my genre to see what they used. After looking I used the evidence from other films and it had a great influence on my final choice.
Before actually deciding which font I wanted to use for my Opening Sequence I had an initial idea of what I wanted. I considered using some more stylised fonts initially.
This is a serif font, with a crusty feel which is more stereotypical of a thriller.
This font gives a representation of a film with a some scary scene, due to the dirty feeling font. I did consider this due the setting of the opening sequence, but rule it out as I believed it would suit a horror film more than a thriller film.
I liked the leading in this font, the space between the letters as its really gives a spine chilling feel, even though it is just serif font.
This was the title font choice which I nearly chose. There are number of features in this font which led me to believe that this was the font I would go with. Firstly, I really liked the splatter effect, which could represent blood or danger. The bowls in the 'A' and the 'O' is a plus (+) sign which can often represent a hospital and also danger.
However after doing research into what other films of a similar style or genre I changed my mind.
Both of these images are from the 'American Psycho' title sequence.
I felt that because my film was promoting a thriller genre, alike 'American Psycho' it should use clean, sharp letters in the titles. I would defiantly say that I used this font style shown in the images to inspire my final decision to use 'Century Gothic' as my title font. Overall I believe that my decision was well thought out and works really well in the piece.
The title and font used in my opening sequence.
