Font Use

Font Use

         There was a huge selection of fonts to use from. one of the sources that we used was 'Dafont' this had many different styles of wording and interesting fonts that we could use in are production adverts and film.

I felt this font was suitable for my genre and target audience as i saw it as quiet bold and if it was to be used with a bold color the font would stand out. Also i feel that the font could symbolize to the audience the genre that where trying to get across.

When looking at fonts I came across a font called Gang Wolfik I felt this was different to Rhum banane as It brought a abstract feel to the production opening sequence, however we thought a crazy title would be different and appeling for the beginning.

Boom Box was a interesting font, as it was bold and spaced out when it came to the actual text I feel this would be good as it looked Big and spaced out it would defiantly get the audiences attention especially if it was used with a bright colour. 

Zombie Land Opening Sequence

ZOMBIELAND: OPENING SEQUENCE 




I looked at examples of title sequences to have more of a understanding of how opening titles are presented and the certain order that one must be in. I chose the film zombieland as i felt the effects that they use to create the atmosphere of the film is very effective and the order that they put the titles in. A thing that caught my eye was the way that the titles would flow with the action that is going around them. one example was at the end when the title 'ZOMBIELAND' appeared the man used the bat smashing a window making the title disappear with the window.

Above is the opening sequence for Zombieland. 

                                     

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Lost Dog sequence

Lost Dog Production

                                            

 The Name of are Production is called Lost Dog. the logo animation consists of a Dog who walks in whilst the Text fades in, these words are positioned above and below the logo which in positioned in the centre. Then the animation has a sound, which is a dog howling this could insinuate that are production is a Thriller based  as the howling can be seen as gripping and spine chilling. We used a sharp font with showing the production titles with a white colour this really stands out with the audience getting there attention. this was followed by the dog changing colour to a navy blue we chose this blue symbolising the emotions of  a thriller positive and negative.We chose Lost Dog as we felt a Dog was a strong figure but is a dependent creature and the animation. where the dog is howling I feel is very powerful to the audience and relates to a thriller genre.

My distributor

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight


I looked at the Dark Knight as it i felt the opening sequence would inspire my opening scene also i felt that as The Dark Knight is a thriller it would link to mine as I'm interested to use this genre. Things that i got from this opening sequence was the tense music and the costumes that would have the audience on edge, also they would use a gory element in order to keep the audience excited.

Above you see the opening sequence of The Dark Knight who class as a Thriller

the opening titles uses sound in order to build tension it almost sounds like explosions in the distance, or footsteps of something intimidating. It then fades out with the movie titles. The audience then hears a sound of a ticking clock followed by a low bass drum that could suggest that there is a certain amount of time that they have to complete something. the low bass drum could symbolise the intense action that they will go through.

In this screenshot you are first introduced to a man with his back to the audience. You don't a lot from this wide angle shot. only a mask and a hint of location. However the mask can be very symbolic to the audience as the camera then tracks into the mask. with a growing sound of synth mixed with white noise set to strings. Building the intense action of the scene.

You notice how the director has purposely chose the clown masks instead of the plain masks used in a generic bank robbery, but I feel he has done this in order to put questions in the audiences minds and add creepiness to the characters. As clowns can be frightening so the masks just add more fear for the audience.

 

Brick

BRICK 






The Opening sequence starts off with a faded in xylophone with a guitar followed with it. One moment especially the xylophone increases in sound when you get introduced to a man with a hidden face. Which builds up when the dead women is found on the floor.






The scene still uses the same instruments but when it gets to the end they use a sound bridge as the Music fades and then turns into a school bell.

You can see that the director purposely added mystery to this man to build tension with the scene as you never clearly see his face. This keeps the audience interested with the story as the camera shots puts questions into the audiences minds e.g. who this person?, what is he doing there? etc. But you see that he has something to do with this women on the ground as his mood is calm. Additionally you can see that the director uses a extreme close up to recreate the mystery of the character and the suspense of the scene and what he's looking at.




  

We then see a graphic match used in the opening sequences to show that the girl with the blue bracelet is the same person as in the the two scenes you notice the director has put all the audiences attention on the blue bracelets. also it is used with a close up to make sure that the audience is only looking at the bracelet as it represents the characters from both scenes. also you see that he has not change the colours or the way she wears it as he wants to make it obvious to the audience that its the same person.

Additionally the Mise-en scene of the man shoes and jeans is shown intentionally for the audience to also notice that he is the same person. At this point the director still hasn't shown the character, only the shoes and cuffed jeans which symbolise the character. You can also see with this shot that the character is wearing everything exactly the same intentionally for the audience to realise the mysterious character.



My Brief

Above you see my Opening Brief.