Group Title Font Research and Placement

For our title we want to use some kind of inventive text that relates both to our chosen horror sub genre as well the on screen content.
Here are some examples that we are currently finding useful and that give us ideas for our own font choice:

I like the Sin city (Tarantino, Rodriguez and Miller, 2005) text because it adds the animated element of having features of the title changing. the shot starts with the words sin city made out of alit up city from above with a black back round. this then fills up with red, possibly blood which has horror connotations, until the city fades away. I also like it specifically because it keeps with overall style of the movie which is what we are trying to do with our title and font.

Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie, 2009) also has a groovy font. It has a Victorian theme and looks like its been written with a feather quill. I think this is pretty useful because it has a kind of Gothic feel with a dirty parchment background and we could use a similar font and background for our project.

Another nice use of font is 300 (Snyder, 2009). It has bloody and violent connotations which we would like to include in our final font choice. The editing of the font is clever and if we could do this then it might count as technical excellence.

Shot placement:
Our production has quite a lot of dialogue which the titles will have to feature around. This might be difficult because we don't want to take attention off of the dialogue with intrusive titles. Because of this we have looked at some other title sequences that do similar things to what we are trying to do.
Skyfall (Mendes, 2013) is a good example of how on screen text can be included in a way which doesn't detract from what's happening on the screen.

 This first screen shot shows large central text of the main actors name. The quick fade in and out doesn't take much attention away from the action even though its one of the most important titles in the sequence.



This second screen shot shows how some of the other titles are shown quite nonchalantly. I think this is useful in relation to our production because the Skyfall title sequence is very impressive visually and features the main song for the film so the creators obviously wanted the text to be subtle which is some thing we also want to do for our sequence.