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Typefaces are sets of fonts that share design features, and can be categorized as serif or sans serif. Typography has a history dating back thousands of years and plays an important role in film. Typefaces in film titles can give hints to the genre by their movement, color, or positioning. For example, the bold black and white capital font used in the movie "Face/Off" suits the creepy thriller setting and creates an eerie atmosphere through its simple lines and lack of color.
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Evaluation 1
The opening sequence of Olivia McSweeney's film "Beneath the Surface" follows many conventions of the supernatural thriller genre. It begins with a chase scene at night in a rural setting, establishing mystery. While the sequence uses typical shots and editing, the introduction of the characters and lack of revealing the killer challenges some conventions. Overall, the opening sets up the story and genre expectations effectively within the conventions of real media products.
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3) The film explores tensions between order and chaos, represented in the contrasting styles of dress between different characters and social groups.
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Typography
The document discusses choosing fonts for film titles and credits. It notes that the font should reflect the genre and mood of the film. Examples are given of fonts used in thriller films like Psycho and Black Swan that stand out against a black background to intrigue audiences without giving away the plot. Options for the font "INQUISITION" are presented, with Birch Std ultimately chosen as it fits the mystery/crime genre and title name while the white on black color scheme adds drama.
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The media product uses and develops several conventions of the thriller genre:
1) The narrative follows conventions of a mystery thriller but breaks some by revealing scenes from the end in the opening.
2) Titles follow conventions by including studio names and credits.
3) The protagonist is cool under pressure like in thrillers but the antagonist is atypically a police commissioner.
4) Soundtrack uses tense music to build suspense, sticking to thriller conventions.
5) Editing matches eye lines but also pulls focus within matches to enhance meaning, developing the convention.
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The opening sequence of Olivia McSweeney's film "Beneath the Surface" follows many conventions of the supernatural thriller genre. It begins with a chase scene at night in a rural setting, establishing mystery. While the sequence uses typical shots and editing, the introduction of the characters and lack of revealing the killer challenges some conventions. Overall, the opening sets up the story and genre expectations effectively within the conventions of real media products.
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The document discusses genre in film and its importance to film producers and audiences. Genre gives insight into the director's intentions and helps attract target audiences. It categorizes films by typical features and focuses. Mise-en-scene, including setting, costumes, lighting and character positioning, helps establish genre. Hybrid genres merge two types, like romantic comedy, to create new styles that bring in broader audiences. Genres evolve over time, with some like sci-fi, horror and comedy being more common currently than others such as westerns.
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The document discusses design elements of film magazine covers. It notes that the main cover color depends on the headlining film's logo or genre. Sans serif fonts are generally used to make text stand out, while serif may be used for horror headlines. The layout conventionally features the masthead at top and a central large image as the main focus, with other headlines on the sides. The image will usually feature the main character or actor to help recognition. Red, black, and white are common for horror to connote blood and death.
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The document discusses how a media product (a film trailer) uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real trailers. It follows some typical conventions like using diegetic/non-diegetic sound and fast pacing during intense scenes. However, it challenges conventions by having a young male as the victim rather than a female, and a dominant female villain rather than male. Research was also done on film magazine covers and posters to understand their conventions. The trailer and other materials developed conventions like logos and taglines while also challenging norms like gender roles.
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- 2. Introduction • A typeface (also known as type family) is a set of one or multiple fonts that share common design features. Each font of a typeface has a specific style, weight, width, slant etc however can be adjusted if needed; the most popular typefaces are Helvetica, Courier and Times Roman. • Typefaces can be separated into 2 categories: Sans Serif and Serif. The difference between the 2 is that serif is made up of little decorative marks which make them easier to read where as sans serif is composed of simple lines. For example, ‘Times New Roman’ is a serif type, where as ‘Arial’ is a sans serif type.
- 3. History • Typography dates back almost 3800 years and has recently a significant part of filmmaking, developing over the years with the fashions and trends of the time. • Typefaces are something that are used by many short film makers; however it is also overseen by so many others, particularly in lower budget films. Julia May from Smashing Magazine wrote an article on ‘The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History.’ She stated - “Film titles can be great fun. In them we see the bond between the art of filmmaking and graphic design and perhaps visual culture as a whole. They have always served a greater purpose than themselves: to move the overarching story forward.”
- 4. Typefaces within films • Typefaces plays a very important role in films as they usually give the audience a hint of what the genre is of the film. This can depend on different factors such as movement, colour or positioning. • Lets take a thriller film for example; the typeface in ‘Face/off’ not only suits the ‘creepy’ setting in the opening sequence but the colours are also black and white which is a typical convention of a thriller and creates an eerie atmosphere. • As you can see from this opening title sequence, it consists of a bold black and white capital font which justifies the fact that the use of colour can represent genres.
- 5. Conclusion – What I have learnt • From this research I have not only learnt what typefaces are, but how they can be used to make a big impact. Simply by choosing a certain type of font size or colour, it can have a significant effect on the audiences’ perception of the film that they are watching. For example the boldness and thickness can alter a romantic or comedy opening sequence into a thriller film effortlessly.