Font research for MY movie

1. Horror font research for our film ‘Adeline’

2.  A font is important because it sets the tone
and genre of a film, TV show, commercial,
product etc.
 For example, the ‘SAW’ franchise would not
be as famous or successful if it had a plain
font.
 Fonts are either serif “Serif”or in sans-serif
“Serif”.

3.  A font usually tells the audience the plot/
theme of the movie. The movie company
made ‘SAW’ used a different font for the ‘W’
to make it look like a saw or spikes.
 Another example is the movie ‘Orphan’. They
have used a font that resembles a child’s
handwriting to emphasize that this movie is
scary but also about children.

4.  Many movies decide to use classic, simple
fonts such as Times New Roman or IMPACT.
These fonts may not add a lot of effect,
however when colour and other effects are
added, these titles can create a strong impact
on how the audience see the genre of the
movie. For example by adding a red colour
and scratch marks.

5.  For our horror movie ‘Adeline’ we have been
looking on dafont.com for appropriate fonts.
 We searched the tag ‘horror’ and found an
interesting font called ‘face your fears’.
 We like this font as it connotes blood and
looks like smeared blood. For this reason we
decided for our practise film poster to use the
colour red for this font (which we have used
as our title

6.  Dafont.com also has many other fonts which we
looked at to do with horror that connote many
horror conventions. As you can see below.
 Euro Horror connotes slime
 Horror Hotel connotes blood and vampires
 Horror Sketch connotes scratched (by a knife or
sharp weapon)