Coming Together

The text used within our film introduction we feel is very important as it holds deeper meaning to the context of the film itself. Just as important as the title, the font used for the title as well as the credits must be carefully chosen with well though intentions which is exactly what Clara and I are here to do. When looking for a font for our title, we wants something slightly more comedic. Something similar to an Arrested Development title font: 

By the looks of the letters, one would be able to perceive (at least, hopefully) that this show would be a comedy. There is a lighthearted nature to the font, I don't know how else to explain it, bear with me. In addition to this, we feel that the inclusion of a more "light hearted" font, would perfectly juxtapose the "more serious" (even though not really) context of the situation which is a police interrogation. This contrast between the meaning of these words and its font is exactly what I would like to see. Clara and I began looking for fonts and may I just say, we found MANY. It quickly became so hard to come down to a final decision just because we know how perfect we want the font to not only match the title, but the overall vibe of the movie. Together, we looked at a bunch of fonts and continued sending ideas back and forth to one another. Some fonts we liked, but realized that it wouldn't really fit with the aesthetic of the movie. Other fonts that we thought might've fit with the movie concept, we decided just wouldn't look nice with the title of our movie itself and the exact wording. Were we very picky? Yes. But was being picky very necessary? Also yes. Being completely honest, although knowing how important fonts are, I would have never guessed that choosing one would be this hard. Some fonts were definitely easy "no's", but other fonts seemed so perfect that I wish I could have chosen  multiple. 

 Here are just a few of the options that we had discussed. I think you will be able to understand what I am feeling:

After taking literally everything into consideration, we landed upon such a perfect font. This font is called "hitchcut" and here is what it looks like:  

We feel that this font so effortlessly maintains the weird balance between a comedy and something more. Clara and I love the perfect imperfections of this font. How it isn't exactly clean cut yet is still bold and put together. This is the perfect type of font that grabs attention but won't distract from further detail. Since the inclusion of the fonts will take place within the stages of the editing process, we have not included the fonts within our film so it is not 100% confirmed that this is the font we are using, yet both of us seem to agree that it is one of our best bets. 

Up next, the next font we would use is a font for the display of our credits. During our film introduction, our credits will be displayed most likely within the corners or the bottom of the screen. Our introduction is slightly different from a typical film opening because it can be considered quite busy compared to how many other film openings may be seen as more calm. Because of this, we would rather have our viewers to pay attention to the content being established rather than being distracted by an obnoxious font when glancing at our credits. We would much rather prefer a more casual font to display our credits because we do not want viewers to think too much into the meaning behind the credit font choice. With this in mind, we believe the best choice for us would be to use something along the lines of "avenir next". This font is very bland a straightforward. It gets the point across in a non distracting manner which is our exact goal. 

 

(Week 4: 2/28-3/6, post 2)