TITLE RESEARCH - POST PRODUCTION

Love sick has somewhat been one of our inspirations as it has a lot of simularities to our film. It is a short film and our audience are young. We liked the simplicity of the films title 'Love sick' and the large font. This example shows the text overlayed over the footage.

This was another type of titling we could use which involves the text on a black background. We liked this technique aswell because it makes the audience focus on the titles making it more memorable. We only wanted to look at films with a simular audience as ours because we could then get a better idea of what kind of font to use for our film.

In the opening sequence to the film seven they also overlay the titles on the film footage aswell as adding them on top of a blackscreen, an imalgramation of the two.

Fonts:

Hiragino Katu Gothic font

This font we feel would be really good as it looks very modern and would therefore, work well to reflect and attract our target audience, who we want to aim it at.
When editing and experimenting with fonts, this font we found on the Mac computer was something we really liked in all capital in particular as this made it appear more bold whilst not drawing all the attention off our moving background. We also liked the captitals because it did not have any serifs which looked more modern.

Lucida Grande

We also used this font while experimenting with our titling and also really liked this font. While it had similarities to the other font, it was slightly slimmer and we thought it could be more suitable and more subtle on our footage than the other font. It again, reflects our target audiences as it is a modern and 'young' font. However we didnt like that it is a bit too plain and so it would be hard to build a 'brand' with it and have the font be associated with our film.

Handwriting fonts

When looking through fonts, we decided that we would not use a handwriting font on our titling. It would be hard for our audiences to read it on the background and it is more suited to a romance or sad film and it has common associations with films of those genres, therefore we wouldn't want to give the wrong inpression, so we wont be using it.

Titling layout ideas:

Orginally we wanted to create some interesting ways of representing our titling on our film. These are some of the ideas we came up with. However in the end we decided to go mainly with the more plain ideas because of the background we had to fit it into.

First idea:

This was our first idea and we wanted the words to be incorporated in between another so that they joined and linked. We felt this gave a very creative side to our titling and something not used much in movies. However though, with this idea it would be very hard to include on shots as it would detract quite a lot of attention away from our our actual film shots.

Second idea:


This was our second idea to incorporate in our shots for our titling. We both really liked this way the text was laid out but unfortunately it didn't work as we wanted as not all the letters showed in the text box so it was cut off. We therefore couldn't use this layout idea.

Third idea:


This idea was our third idea and the best one we had out of these 3 as it fitted all the way and doesn't detract too much attention away from our film shots. However, it may be slightly difficult for the audience to read what it says which is our only concern.