Title Font Inspiration: Pintrest

Title Font Inspiration: Pintrest

Within these fonts, I really like the fonts where it is all in caps lock and is quite simple. I don't think I want my font to be fancy or curly as it can be quite hard to read sometimes for the viewer.

Researching Into a Potential Target Audience - Primary Research

How will this research affect my ideas?

I will use a font that is easy to read and stands out, as it will be more likely to catch the audiences eye. Also, I will try and make my opening appeal to a teenage audience as I think that will be easiest for me and I understand the conventions needed to appeal to that category. Most people, from my research, recognise that Fame is meant to be for a teenage audience so I think I will use the opening for Fame a lot to help me in terms of plot ideas. Lastly, I don't want my opening to make the rest of the storyline seem predictable as from my research, that can put people off from watching the rest of the film. I will need to think of a way to make sure a non predictable storyline is put across to the audience.

Researching Student Work

• This is made with the intention of being in the thriller genre.
• It shows someone looking at a research board of an investigation of missing children.
• It isn't the most simple concept as we don't know exactly what is going on very clearly.
• 11 titles were used, and they were either placed in the bottom right or left conner of the frame.
• The title of the film, 'Delirium', was the only title to appear in the centre of the frame.
• Bold, white and in caps lock font. Quite rigid and straight font.
• Filmed in two locations only.
• Two characters, dressed in simple costume. Man is wearing suit attire and girl is wearing pjs.
• Uses a variety of close ups, mis shots and also uses panning a lot. Also uses fading as an editing technique.

• This film is in the action genre.
• It shows a boy running from two guard looking men.
• It is a pretty simple concept in terms of we can understand that the boy is important to the guard men and they want him/trying to stop him, or something he has.
• 22 titles were used, and were placed all over the screen, attached to different objects within the frame and background. They almost blended in with the surroundings.
• The title of the film appeared huge, and centre on screen.
• Titles were different colours but were mainly white, black and blue and were in caps lock and some letters within words were spaced out.
• Filmed within the same building/area.
• Three characters, two guards were dressed in suits and the boy was dressed in casual clothes e.g. a hoodie, and was wearing rollerblades.
• Uses a wide variety of shots including close ups, long shots, establishing shots, mid shots etc. It also uses shots taken from character's points of view. Uses panning and tracking.

Reflection

From watching previous students final pieces of work, it has confirmed to me that I should keep my idea as simple as possible as that is the most effective. Furthermore, I should be creative, but not too creative with my titles and try and make the way they look fit in with the genre of my film opening. It has also confirmed to me that I should try an not use dialogue if possible. However, if I do, it should be one person talking only or a voice over as if it were someone's thoughts.

Inspiration

To Do/Not To Do List

Textual Analysis 3 - Fame (2009)

This video of the Fame 2009 opening credits may not appear on certain devices. However, I can't upload this to YouTube due to copyright.  Please see my Evaluation Question 1 Prezi and it is the second video.

Textual Analysis 2 - My Sister's Keeper

Textual Analysis - Chasing Shakespeare

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/chasing-shakespeare/

Research into Institutions

How will this research affect my ideas?
Due to my research into the distribution of films, it has confirmed the idea that my film opening should include prominent characteristics from the drama genre, but should also have a slight difference to add variety to the drama films that Universal Studios Home Entertainment has already distributed.

Analysing Cinematography

Gone Girl - http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/gone-girl/

How will this influence my work?

Personally, from watching this opening sequence from the drama Gone Girl, I have decided to especially make sure I include establishing shots within my own opening sequence. I will hopefully be able to effectively use the shots to have certain connotations to the audience. Furthermore, I have learned from analysing this extract that having close ups, medium shots, and long shots within the opening sequence especially, effectively conveys to the audience a sense of the storyline and the characters role within the plot. I will use a range of these shots as well as use of the other three technical codes to convey the different character's roles within the plot and their starting point within the film.

Mise-en-scene Research

From analysing this title sequence from Vantage Point, I have decided that I need to address the following for my own work in terms of Mise-en-scene:

• The colours need to be consistent throughout
• The locations should be fitting to my chosen genre.
• The font of the titles need to be consistent.
• The lighting and props should tie in with my chosen genre. 

Initial Title Research

Researching Genre

Researching Genre from 048860