Thriller Fonts

These titles represent both the theme and genre of horror and scary movies well. And hopefully the fonts we use will also look authentic and won’t appear out of place as a Hollywood movie… I wanted to find out what types of fonts and techniques were stereotypically used in scary movies and find examples of how they appear on the screen. I also wanted to find out what colours were used and the components which linked these scar movies together. I found out that quite often the text will appear with a blurred, kind of mirrored effect in the background to create tension and eeriness, often dull gothic colours are used to expand the idea of horror and only bright colours used are red as when found in horror production it is generally because of the representation of blood. This research really helped me in working out how I was going to make our title fonts and the effects I would use.

Regrets

If i was able to do this process all over again i think it would be fair to say, i would do it slightly differently. For starters I would'nt of chosen to do a thriller production as I think it seems slightly obvious, and would of rather done a comedy, romance or realism production. I would of also not used the font swe used for some of the titles in our production as i think they appear slightly too elegant for such a thriller storyline and doesnt seem completley authentic with the "presents..." slide. Although i did do other titles for these slides but was outruled by the group on the final piece.
My titles would of used this font:

throughout the production, as i think this font which we did origninal choose looks gothic, and would of worked well in the film production.

filming grid

This is our filming plan, and shows how we will stick and schedule with this process, as without it we won’t effectively film proper scenes and get the film, produced and edited before the Christmas break. The grid shows a description of what we need to do each day, and the times we need to do it in, it and the content the task requires.

filming

Our group are going to start filming next Monday, being the 15^th November when we have printed all our photos which are going to use for our two minute film opening, so this is the filming plan:

The location: we are going to be filming at Parrises house because it is close the school meaning transport won’t be a problem and the house will fit with the demands that the location required. Also as its not a public place the only permission we will need to film there is Parrises which we already have.

We will also be filming outside on a street near and around Parrises house, as part of the film opening and we will then be taking location shots to post on this blog as part of our planning.

The actors: all the actors will come from members of our group, I will play the stalkers victim and will be the only actor in full view of the camera, the other actors will take in turns to change roll as the stalker and only shadows, hands and behind the head shots will be seen as the stalkers character to keep the suspense and mystery of the stalker under wraps until later on in the film

Whilst others are being filmed the other group members will take it in turn to film and directing the film so we can each have a role completing the final outcome.

The filming: whilst filming we will have to consider, lighting, and timing when filming both inside and outside, and particularly whilst filming outside we need to ensure that the background and surroundings don’t change during the period we film. As change in the location will question continuity of the film. We also have to plan the times we can use the camera, and fit the schedule into our other commitments.

Title

During the title sequence of our film opening, titles will appear with the names of the actors, production team and directors of the film. We will be writing these names on the photos of the stalkers victim, and won’t be using a computer to design them. Although we will need to find out what type of font we should use to create a sinister atmosphere to the opening film scenes.

These fonts, our fonts we liked as we wanted to imitate a scruffiness instead of perfect handwriting:

We used www.dafont.com to choose our font, as the website offers a large range of fonts under different themes, and all of these came under the theme of handwriting, we finally decided that the font we will use for the tiles will be based on this font:

Called Clive Barker, we chose this font because it look quite foreboding because of the scruffy script effect and because it doesn’t look feminine, as we would like the audience to believe that the stalker wrote on the Polaroid photos.

Location Shots

When we finished our animatic, we then had to decide where we going to shoot our film, and decided as the sequence will only introduce the 'stalker' character in a mysterious light only one setting will be used in the filming and that is the dark room where photos of the victim will be included and new photos of the girl will be seen being developed. these are pictures of the dark room, which will add to the mystery of the mise en scene

Target Audience

Our film is based on a thriller, meaning that the certification for the film needs to be considered as scenes of trauma will be aired and therefore not everyone will legally be able to see the film. Obviously having a certificate U, PG, or 12 would not be appropriate as strong language and scenes of violence can not be taken lightly. So the choice was between certificate 15 or certificate 18.

After looking at the guidelines which make up a 15 certificate film, we realised that an 18 certificate would not be needed as sex, strong language, nudity, horror and imitable behaviour are allowed within reason as part of a 15 certificate film.

So basically, the target audience for our horror film ‘’eye spy with my little eye’’ is a 15 certificate