Title Sequence of our Thriller

Our Thriller Title Sequence

For our title sequence, would looked at a variety of fonts to make sure we captured the dark feel we wanted our thriller to have. We went online and onto different font websites and tested what the films name, ‘Torpidity’, would look like in the many different fonts. We managed to cut it down to a list of two before picking the font we felt best fitted out film. We felt that both fonts could have worked for the film but there was one that stood out as more effective.

Text is very important in films and can even become a famous and familiar text, like in films such as ‘Fast and Furious’ series or ………. This meant that we needed to make our font simple but effective allowing the text to be remembered and become well known. The font needs to show the intentions and feel of the film as it is the first thing that the audience will see so it needs to make an impression. We went to a website called www.dafont.com to come up with our choices for our opening sequence.

The first typeface that we looked at was called ‘Infinite Stroke’. At first viewing we thought the text could be successful due to its sinister look but after further analysis we concluded that the font wouldn’t fit the type of feel we were looking for. Though it does give a sinister feel it was too fragile and delicate for our film. The film we looked to create is violent and very dark so we didn’t feel that this type of font did it any justice. Every aspect of our film is dark, even our protagonist and our antagonist. This meant that the font didn’t suit what image we were trying to create. Also, the font would’ve been used for the credits at the start of the feel so we felt that it didn’t match the character’s personalities and their actions.

The second font we looked at was 'Typographica'. This was a good candidate as it matched our intentions that we wished to portray in the opening sequence. The font creates a feel of intimidation and power which best suited our sub-genre of psychological thriller. It is a simple font compared to the first one we looked at and all the letters are largely spaced out between each other creating the sense of individuality. This was key to our film as the two characters we see at the start of the piece are both very much different in personalities. Therefore, the text being so spaced out furthered these connotations of an intimidating nature. This font was a very strong candidate that could’ve worked successfully with our film.

Finally, the font that we did chose was …. We felt that this font was the most successful out of the three as it combined all the aspects that we were looking for. All the characters in the typeface were spaced out largely. This again created the connotations of individuality and with the added line on the bottom made it more intimidating to the audience. The font came across as very sinister which is the feel that we were targeting. To conclude we felt that this text would make our opening sequence successful and in the final piece matched the tone that was present throughout the piece.