Typography #2

Following our research into fonts to use, we experimented with them in iMovie. In order to get the effect we wanted we filmed the screen using quick time moved the mouse between the words to get a flickering effect, we wanted this effect as it went well with the strobe lighting in our teaser trailer. 

These are our favourite fonts that we will be deciding between.. 

This is the font Extrakrebel 1987 We like this one as we feel it fits well with our film, we thought the crosses throught the o's would work particularly well with our film as this could symbolise the deth of the victims, the font overall we feel looks quite creepy and therefore fits well with our film. The only negative thing about this font is that we feel it may be difficult to read and therefore will research into this.

 We liked this font Vtks Contact as some of the letters have a blurred affect which indicates that there could be something wrong, it also fits with our trailer as due to the strobe lighting we used parts of the trailer are blurred, therefore the blurred letters will link to this, however the problem we have with this font is that it doesn't have as good as effect on iMovie as the blurred effect doesn't appear the same, which takes away from the effect the font causes.

Poster Drafts

 

These are our first drafts for our movie poster. We used the photo that is our blog background and for our website background. We think that this links them altogether and would make the audience aware that they're all from the same film. We also think that the mask would be iconic and people would hopefully associate the clown mask with our film.

The posters below are looking at the font that we may use. All the fonts below came from the site dafont.com

 

 

For this poster we used the font Extrakrebel 1987. We think that this font fits well with the theme of our film, as it looks quite creepy and we think that the crosses through the 'O''s could symbolize death and crossing the victims off as he kills them. However, an issue with this font that we have is that it is quite difficult to read. Therefore, we are going to ask people who do not know anything about our trailer what it says to see if they can read it.

For this poster we used the font Erthqake. We chose this font because we liked that it was slightly blurry, which could imply that something isn't right. However, we think that it doesn't go with the theme of our film enough and doesn't look right on the poster.

This font is called Vtks Contact. We originally liked this font as some of the letters were blurred, again implying that something is not right with the clown. The font also looks a bit like the font used in older films and war films when they look at reports. This could suggest that the clown is being looked into by the police and there is a report on him.

The last font that we liked was called Wilderness. We liked this font as we think that it fits well with the theme of our film and stands out well enough against the black background but does not take any attention away from the clown. This is important as we want the clown to be the main feature of the poster, and for people to look at the clown and immediately know that it is from our film.

Typography

We used the website www.dafont.com to choose a font to use for our trailer, poster and website. Here are the ones we have been looking at:

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10

We have decided that fonts 1, 2, 5 and 9 are our favourite as they fit best with the concept of our film. We will therefore experiment further with these three fonts in order to select the typography to use in our trailer, poster and website.