Planning for Final Task: Title Design

     For our opening sequence, we planned on using a handwriting style font like this: “Music by” This font would play into the notepad that is seen throughout the film. We also decided that this handwriting font would be used for all of the titles except the film title. For the film title, we decided on using a more serious font, fitting in with the conventions of the thriller genre. The font for the film title would look something like this: “ENIGMA.” While doing our genre research, we found that we liked the title for the movie, “Premonition,” and decided to draw inspiration from the film title for the movie. 

The handwritten titles will also be written with proper grammar, with the first letter of each title capitalized and the appropriate letters within the names of the people capitalized. The film title, on the other hand, will be all capitalized.

The color of the “handwritten” titles that will mainly be used in the film will be gray, as if it were written with a pencil. It will look  like this: “Music by.” The color of the film title will be gray as well, but a darker gray than the “handwritten” titles. It will look like this: “ENIGMA”

For our film title, we will have loose tracking meanwhile the rest of the titles will have a relatively normal tracking. The handwritten titles will look like this: “Music by.” The film title will most likely look like this: “E N I G M A”. The looser tracking makes the title seem “colder” which adds to the thriller genre. As for the kerning, we have decided to keep this relatively normal as well.

We decided that, for now, our working title would be, “Enigma.” We decided on this title because it means, “a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.” The girl’s mother’s death is an enigma, and is what the entire film is based around, which is why we decided on this title as of right now.

The first two titles, the production and studio titles, will be incorporated in the very first scene. The studio title will be displayed in the top left corner and will be immediately followed by the production company title, which will be displayed in the bottom right corner and will not be embedded on the screen. The rest of the titles will be displayed throughout the film, at the bottom sections of the screens and, again, will not be embedded on the screen. Each title will be displayed for approximately 5 seconds with the exception of the film title, which will be displayed for approximately 7 seconds, in the middle of the screen.

All the transitions will fade in and fade back out. The entire title will be faded in, and this will be done as if it is appearing and then disappearing, as opposed to a side to side fade in and out. This will be done slowly after about 3 seconds have passed, allowing for 1 second each of the transitions. The actual film title, however, will have longer transitions with about 1.5 seconds each of transitions.