Font Selection

    For my 2nd to last post of this week I wanted to take some time and consider some fonts for the opening of our film opening. We are set to record tomorrow and I think now is about the right time to be thinking of the more minute details of the opening that are still highly important to set it up well. 

Font Selection

    For the font of the opening, I feel like it would be best to choose something that can emulate the mysterious feel that our opening hopes to achieve. For our overall plot as I said in our earlier posts we took heavy inspiration from works like scream with an unassuming at-home murder. So, for my research, I started there. 

The Scream Font

    

    The scream font seems to give pretty much nothing away in its font. It seems to be a big bold text face that seems quite mundane while still in your face and demanding attention due to its all-caps nature and boldface. The other interesting part of it is the changes in the way the M's and W's look which gives a kind of flair to the mundaneness of the font overall which is used at the end of the title. Although I like this font it is a bit too boring for what we want to do. Since Scream's antagonist is a regular human I think the font works but since we want to create a mystery surrounding a supernatural force I think I want to retain some of the mundaneness but leave more flair in the texts that hint at something more.

    From there I decided to go and look through a long list of fonts (link here) and while scrolling 2 fonts specifically stood out to me as fitting the bill for the mundane font with that bit of ominous flair that I was looking for. Those fonts were called Living Hell Regular and Funkrocker.

Image of Living Hell Regular font (link here)

    This font has all the aspects of Scream but with that added something extra that helps to establish that there is something more under the surface of our opening. The first letters being these ink-blotched kinda distorted-looking characters fit the opening's connection to the doppelganger that also is a bit distorted and different himself. It also keeps the mundaneness with mostly boldface all-caps text but the added flair helps to keep the watcher's attention. 

Image of Funkrocker font (link here)

    This font is very similar to the other one but loses the mundaneness that made the scream one so great. I feel like this one is a less likely choice for the final option due to its more in-your-face nature but when it comes down to it I will see if it works better than living hell. The juxtaposition between the font's look and the feel of the movie may also add to the feeling that something is wrong so it might just work. 

Conclusion

    After looking at the various fonts that can be used for the opening as well as considering what I actually want the font to bring into the opening when I go to do it I believe I have found some options that fit the bill quite nicely. Finding these fonts will help me when the editing process begins leaving one less step to do when the time comes. Although I will have to experiment with which one I think works best I still think that is the least of my worries. Tomorrow we will be filming the shots for our opening so stay tuned for that!