Our construction main titles 2- Fonts

After looking at the fonts featured in films, Alex and I looked very hard into the Macs for a font that suited our film.

For our main title 'Inspector' Alex and I wanted the title to appear over the visuals and then for it to remain over black until it fades out. After messing around with the transitions, Alex and I also decided that it would look especially mysterious and delicate if the title faded in onto the screen before as well as fading out. The font we used (Courier New) is similar to a Serif font because it has flicks at the end of the letters and in the corners for example:

S rather than S and N rather than N

This font is considered more formal than a font which is not a serif. This makes the film look as if it is part of a professional business which is similar to and reflects the genre of Film Noir. The font looks a bit similar to that of a typewriter which with the title 'Inspector' connotes to business and Film Noir. But the font isn't fully a formal one as it has a white outline with a black filling which makes the font look modern and slightly more fun. This too reflects our genre. The size for the font we used as 116pt. This was the limit the font could take to fill up the entire screen with the whole word being on one line. As our film is only a one worded title we wanted it to be as big and obvious as possible.

Most film's have a special way of presenting their fonts for a film. In big blockbuster films which are part of a big scale production with lots of money, some films have their own font created for them. Because this would take much longer as part of our task, the quickest and most successful way for our

film would be to use an already created font and put our own spin on it. After looking through the many fonts that were available for us on the Macs and the iMovie, we found that the basic font of 'Gill Sans'

in the size 24pt bold fitted quite well. The font also has an outline to it

compared to what it would be as a defult. We wanted the titles to be clear of the visuals and wanted them to stand out which is why we chose the fill colour of white as it stands out over the many different colours that feature in the visuals. Most films have different ways of presenting their titles for example a 'o' being turned into a 0 so it stands out or an 'a' being a '4' and most
commonly is the sure name is capitals or a different colour. We

liked this idea and so spelt all of the sure names featured in the titles in capitals so they stood out. We also used a style which meant that each letter in the
word are close together as you can see from the title
'Freddie' on the right. The letters are not too close that they are overlapping or legible, but enough that they look simple but have a small twist on it which makes the film an individual.


For the the first title used which shows who the film is by, we used the same font and size for the rest of the title to show the two names but for the word 'and' we used a different font to make it look professional. It also causes more focus on the titles as they do not, after a while, blend into the visuals for the audience so they are still aware of it. For this font we used 'Signpainter' which is a lot different from the two names in the font 'Gill Sans'. It looks more like a Serif styled font and looks professional.

For the name of the studio which is distributing our film 'Purple Mammoth' we chose to have their logo and jingle before our whole film. Even though with this transition and text on the iMovie it did not allow for us to change the font, we still felt it looked appropriate and professional from our research into other films. It was hard to find out what exactly the font was as we could not change it, but from looking at fonts I believe it is the default font Times New Roman which we would like to have avoided but it still fits in with the film. As Purple Mammoth is technically separate from our film as in reality it would distribute a lot of other films, we liked how it was different to our film as it didn't need a genre.