Film Title

To help us decide on the typography of our title at the start of our film opening we looked titles from the a list of  of recent “slasher” films we compiled to analyse the typography and fonts.

We noticed that the main colours used are red ,black and white. There are hardly any use of primary colours (excluding red) or bright colours. This is probably because they are associated with the genre of children’s films . The red is probably so commonly used due to its association with blood and danger. The colour black also has many connotations such as evil , and the unknown. White is also commonly used to juxtapose the dark goings on in the films since white is often seen as colour that represents , innocence and purity. A few of the titles have white writing on a black background which adds further contrast.

We also noticed there is a lot of use of shadows and blurred effects used on the font of the film titles. Shadows are an effective way to represent the unknown and often things going on without being noticed. shadows are often linked to paranoia because they are everywhere and horror films and slasher films like to create of feeling of not knowing what is going on or what or who is hiding amongst  the shadows. Blurriness has the connotations of not being fully aware of your surroundings or not being able to see properly , resulting in surprises often horrific ones. It also has connotations with drug and alcohol use and “being under the influence” which links to not being in full control or aware of your actions or surroundings which is familiar in horror movies for supernatural and horrific activity to ensue.