Titles and font decisions

We wanted to in co-operate the styles of titles used in the films ‘Captivity (2007)’ and ‘Halloween 2 (2009)’ into our trailer, as it is also a horror genre. We were inspired by the white titles on a black background as they stood out and set the right tone of boldness which is very effective to catch the audience’s attention. Also the titles with the filming gives a narrative story to the audience, educating them of what is going to happen in the film, this would intrigue them to find out what will happen to the three girls and will there be any justice.

The titles will set the tone/ mood for the trailer; we decided to add them throughout the trailer to tell a narrative as we didn’t have much dialogue in the trailer. Also, we didn’t want to overpower the audience with lots of titles thrown at them at once, so we spread them out with a mixture of filming/ shots.

We created the titles in a logical structure, as the trailer progressed from one character to another we created titles to show the audience what is going to happen to each character. This indicates that the killer will treat/kill the charades in different ways, more viscously to some characters because he punished them by how badly they treated him at school.

The block capitals used in ‘Captivity’ and ‘Halloween’  made the trailers stand out so we decided that we wanted to in-cooperate this effect into our trailer, so it grabs the audience’s attention. Also, using block capitals again reinforced the significance and importance of the production. We also wanted the titles to look professional.  The font we used for the titles was ‘Arial’; this is because we wanted to portray the titles as being traditional yet modern. Also, we wanted to choose a font that can be easily read by the audience.

Below are the titles which inspired us from the trailers for ‘Captivity’ and ‘Halloween’:

The titles we created for 'The Return' production are shown below:

We decided to create the titles on a black background, as black has connatations of death, misery and darkness. The titles get across the genre of the trailer as it enhances the horror/ thriller aspects that there could be unpleasant consequences for the characters in the trailer. also, the titles has a tint of red added to white which resembles blood which again suggests that the charaacter could potentially be killed or severly hurt from the tortourous acts the killer performs on them.  

The style of font we decided to used was serif font, we decided to use these style of font as it is seen and portayed as being a funky playful font, this would suggest that the characters used in the trailer are young where they have just esblaighed their identitlies and choice of lifestyle through eduction and jobs.