Post-Production (Titles): Title Ideas/Creation

Having a bold title to stand out in a film is a key element to how successful it is to portray to an audience. We were sure about the name, however we weren't sure about what font and colour it would be for our poster, film and magazine article. Below are pictures of titles in which have the same genre attached to them as they do to our short film. Clearly, the key colour scheme is either red, or black and white and they all use quite bald font. We decided that we both liked the distress look of the title "Se7en", as this was very tension setting. However, we also quite liked the look of "Insidious", as this was quite a classic horror film font. We then decided that we wanted to use the colours black and white, as its simple but very effective in being a good title, we didn't want to use any bright and bold colours to distract the audience.   

With the name for our film being decided as "Phone Alone", we decided to design how the title would look, we did this through researching different titles of films of the thriller horror genre and analysing the fonts of them. Using a website called "Da Font", I could test to see how different fonts would look with our title. Below we created a mood board to show all the possible fonts we decided the film to be portrayed in.

We narrowed it down to three choices of which the font was most effective. All of them relevant to our conventions and our plot. These three choices are all the sort of styles of font we wanted for our film. They all look very distressed and distorted which would be effective as it raises tension in the audience. These are also all effective as they look technical, as if they're to do with the word phone.

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Overall, we have decided that title 2 is the best as it has the most simplicity and also it has a really nice design to it, like a connection is being stopped by something. Metaphorically, that being the stalker and this is what we will be using for future reference in making our ancillaries.