Creating our title image

To create the film logo, we looked at many different film titles to get inspiration for our own. We also created a few different versions of our title image so we could pick out the best parts of the title and combine them to create the image that we wanted.

We liked the titles above as they were very simple yet effective to set the sinister scene of the thriller. The structured use of the writing makes it look tidy and helps create a professional look without much hassle.

The use of the dark colours are also a good quality as black helps to represent the thriller genre and connote the fear and sinister mood within  the opening.

Not only did we look at existing titles but also different backgrounds to accompany the words.

These are some the titles we created incorporating some of these ideas…

Although we liked the examples made above and their simplicity, we decided to go for something less simple and a little more outrageous. 

Looking around online we found a website called 'DaFont' and on here was a number of different style fonts. We found a perfect sinister style font that we could use in our title and then went on to print key the letters from the website and then save them, we removed their white background so we could then incorporate them with a background for our design. To remove the background from the letters we imported them into photoshop and on each letter used the tool 'background eraser tool'.

This is what we produced:

When we imported it into our media production we made further changes to the title, we added some red/orange colours to the background and writing in order to add to the sinister effect as the colour red connotes danger and fear. We also made the title move around the the screen in jumpy motions, again to create a sinister effect. We were inspired to create this type of jumpy image by the titles we had previously seen on se7en.