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Friday 3 December 2010

Research and planning: Fonts.

Deciding what fonts we were going to use was a lengthy and arduous process; especially with the large variety of fonts at our disposal, and then even more so with the layer blending properties afterwards. It was not an easy task, but given the settings, forests and desolate areas, we figured we would need something narrow and threatening, and so I watched various films set in similar areas and took note of those fonts.
The first film I watched, was Blair Witch Project; infamously set in the forest where we as an audience felt completely lost alongside the students in the film, the theme suited ours perfectly, so naturally I figured that the font would also fit our purpose.

However, the context of the film in itself was the wrong genre, and even though the title suited the theme of the Blair Witch Project, it ultimately would be underwhelming in our film.
The second film I looked at was Scream. Although not set in a forest, the genre of the film was the same; slasher, so I decided that would be my next film to watch.
The title is distorted and so I decided that our title should ultimately be distorted also, but I thought that it wasn't enough, so I took this type of font and narrowed it down into the title font we have now.
It took a little while for the font to look just right, and I decided to use the shadow under the font from scream to make the film work.
I believe that despite all of the work put into finding this font, I find that it suits the film well and I am rather proud of it. I believe that it would be difficult to improve it much more.

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