Typography

When deciding what type of text to use in our opening, as it's a Film Noir it was essential to use either a black or white font. At first we thought a white font with a black outline would be best as we were planning on using it over the top of the action; after deciding to put the text on a black screen it was apparent that black font with a white outline looked better. When choosing the font of our typography we had to consider the narrative of our opening; certain fonts appear childlike, and would diminish the meaning of the opening. For this reason, we chose to use a fairly plain font, which connoted seriousness and suspense.


- Black text with a white outline
- Black screen
- Wipe effect
- Style:
Sans Serif
Plain
Strong


Examples of text we're using:

Evaluation

When thinking about the title sequence for our opening, it was important to consider the colours of the typography as we're doing a Film Noir, meaning we had to carefully think about what colours would look best on black and white. We were undecided on whether to use a black font with a white outline, or a white font with a black outline; we needed to use a font that would be visible over the action, but we didn't want the text to be too obvious that it dominated the screen/shot. We decided that the shot should be roughly 15 seconds long, but over the top of the images; we felt that having the text on a plain black screen for 15 seconds would cause our target audience of young 15 year olds to become agitated and lose concentration.
For our storyboard we made sure we focused on the camera angles and distances when drawing the images, we felt it was extremely important to have the images drawn fairly similar to how we pictured the opening to look. However, at some points we struggled to show that the images were drawn at an angle making it more difficult for us to recognise the angles we wanted to use. As well as this, we made sure we had alternative options of certain shots; this meant that we would have a larger choice of shots to use, hopefully meaning there would be less reshoots needed. On the other hand, alternative shots made the process of creating the animatic a little harder as we were unsure which of our alternative shots to use, without having to make more than one animatic.