The document discusses the process of selecting and designing a font for the masthead of a film titled "Unchanged Variable". It describes exploring sans serif fonts to suit the title and genre, being inspired by other films in the horror genre. The designer chose the Trajan font with hooks, added a light grey texture layer, applied noise and motion blur to create a brushed metal effect, then used layer styles to achieve a shiny metallic textured effect for the font, meeting the goal of the design.

1. The unknown
variable!

2. This is the stage where I was deciding my preferred font for the
Masthead of the film. The idea was to chose a font which
complements the style and genre of the film ‘Unchanged variable’. I
was looking at different fonts on Photoshop, preferably the sans serif
fonts mainly because that particular style of a font suits the title of the
movie and its genre. I was looking for something noticeable but not too
dramatic at the same time. These are examples of the fonts which
particularly inspired me because of their appearance. My main idea
of a font was for it to be in a sans serif font as shown by this illustration.
I was particularly inspired by different fonts of different films, in
terms of the font. Film covers such as Thirst and Sinister. Looking at
these film mastheads, being in the horror genre, the font and their
colours are very complimentary in emphasizing the film genres.

3. At this stage, I chose a
background to
emphasise the genre of
the film. I also selected
a ‘Trajan’ font mainly
because I wanted a
font with hooks. At this
stage I chose a white
font. My aim was to
create a metallic
textured font in a grey
colour, therefore the
colours black (as the
background) and
white (as the text) will
allow me to create this
grey, metallic textured
effect on the text.

4. I opened a new layer
and filled the new
layer with a light grey
colour as illustrated.
The grey colour will
enable the grey,
metallic texture on
the text, which is
what I am looking for.

5. I then added noise
(texture) to the grey
layer (Filter – Noise –
Add Noise). I put the
noise level to 150
and made sure that
sure the Gaussian
and Monochromatic
are selected. All this
contributed in
adding the texture
on this layer. The
noise is the first part
of the metal texture.

6. At this stage, I
selected the Blur tool
then Motion Blur. I set
the angle to -10 and
the pixels to 200. this
is to blur the noise
which creates a
brush metal effect.

7. I cropped out the
edges (left and right)
where there are sharp
textures, so that there
is even texture

8. This is the result after
cropping.
Now the texture is even
across the whole layer.

9. On layer 1, I went on
the layers tool and
selected ‘Create
Clipping Mask’. This
created a grey texture
onto the text.

10. AT this stage, I
followed these steps:
Layer Style – Bevel
and Emboss –
Technique – Chisel
Hard - Depth – 500 –
Size – 7.
This created this
effect on the text.

11. In order for this text to
stand out even more in
terms of colour and
effect, I followed these
steps:
Gloss Contour- Ring –
Anti Aliased
Gradient Overlay –
Opacity to 70% . All of
these steps contributed
to achieving this shiny,
metallic textured effect
on the text, which Is
what I was aiming to
achieve.

12. I changed the order of the text
to create a more dramatic
appearance as illustrated.