Typography

To create the typography for our titles we used the website "www.dafont.com" and chose 5 different styles of typography for our main thriller title. Every style of typography we chose is distorted which suits the theme of our thriller which is psychological. The story behind our thriller is quite dark and sisnister, and I feel that the typoghraphies chosen show this.

1. The first typography has as a typical "Arial" style which as a group we thought could show the normal aspect of the teenage girls life and personality. However it does have lines which distort the title which could represent the girls "alter-ego" character and show the disruction of this "alter-ego" to the girls life.



2. Typography two is similar to the first but instead this looks like it hs been smudged or effected. which could relate to the "alter-ego" and how it has distorted the normal teenage girls mind and the way in which she thinks.



3. The third choice of typography has letters which are in a normal style but are not in a straight line and the end of the letters have small "sharp" looking flicks on the. To us, the sharp flicks could suggest the sinister and deadly feel which we wish to achieve from our opening thriller sequence.


4. Typography four has been distorted using a white coloured shadow behind each letter. This links to our thriller as we are using magazines which are going to be ripped up and the white shadow behind the typography is similar to the ripped up paper which we will be using. We liked this option as it could suggest the "alter-ego" and how she is lurking behind the normal girls personality.


5. Typography five is similar to four but instead has a shadow of lines behind it. This gives a similar effct to four where the alter ego is lurking inside the girls mind and controlling her personality.




For our pitch we created a poll so that our peers who were watching could vote for the typography they prefer and which they feel would be most effective as we needed to gain opinions from our target audience. Here are the results from this poll:




This poll revealed to the group that the most popular typography choice was the fourth style. As a group we feel that this is a good choice as it reflects the story behind our opening titles sequeunce. At the beginning of our opening, we plan to have the normal teenage girl reading magazies, when she then hears unusual sounds coming from upstairs. She investigates the sound to find the "alter-ego" charcter on the floor in her bedroom surrounded by ripped paper and magazines. Typography four suits this because the white shadow behind the lettering corralates with the ripped up magazines which will be used. As this typography has a "type-writer" feel to it, it is typical of the thriller genre as it is used in many crime and mystery thrillers.