Font inspiration for our thriller opening
Zodiac- We felt with our intetextual reference to the Zodiac film in relation to our opening of a thriller, the Zodiac being a notorious murderer and our opening featuring an obsessive killer, that the handwriting of the Zodiac killer would be an appropriate font style to use. Handwriting is a common feature used in thriller title sequences, giving away a lot about a person whilst simultaneously keeping their identity hidden.
The Zodiac killer also uses a code when sending letter sand writing notes on his victims. We felt that a code would be a good font to use for small parts in our opening sequence, it presents an almost deranged mind and also gives a sense of an unexpected nature.
Zodiac Cryptogram
'Each section consisted of eight lines of seventeen symbols, which included a variety of items, from Greek symbols to Morse code to navy semaphore, and even a few astrological symbols, notably Taurus' http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/zodiac_profile/2.html
The code not only presents a slightly deranged mind but also an overly clever one too, this almost unimaginable intelligence it presents, allows for audiences to feel as though whoever uses it is unstoppable and that they are always one step ahead of the good. It may be difficult to present these as our antagonist's doing, but, by using colder lighting, rough cuts and loud noises when the code is shown on screen, we can easily establish the person who is using it to be the killer.
The code not only presents a slightly deranged mind but also an overly clever one too, this almost unimaginable intelligence it presents, allows for audiences to feel as though whoever uses it is unstoppable and that they are always one step ahead of the good. It may be difficult to present these as our antagonist's doing, but, by using colder lighting, rough cuts and loud noises when the code is shown on screen, we can easily establish the person who is using it to be the killer.
'Se7ven' was another inspiration in terms of font for our thriller. The scratchy nature of the handwriting paired with the jumpy rough edits and cuts gave a sense of an almost psychotic mind and allowed for the film to clearly establish a horror/thriller ambience from the start, due to our limited time we felt this was essential. The almost child-like style of handwriting used with the overwhelming amount of paper, diaries and diagrams in 'Se7en' is also reflected in many thriller films such as 'Sinister', these items portray a sense of over-analysis a common theme when madness or a psychotic mind is portrayed. By simply using a font, such as the scratchy and uneven one used here, cinematographers can almost immediately push the theme of the film to the audience. The uneven and 'jumpy' quality of the font gives the underlying sense that something is wrong, if the title sequence isn't neat or in order,it sets the audience to expect a the film to follow the same path.
We used the website 'dafont' to research potential fonts to use for our thiller opening, after looking at various fonts such as 'horror sketch' and 'mouse handwriting' we felt that although both these fonts reflected the handwriting and the horror feature, the best font to use would be the 'beautiful horror', as it combined the scartchy and uneven look of the 'mouse handwriting' and the thin, scrawny lines used in 'horror sketch', and also best reflected the writing of the Zodiac, an aspect we really wanted to capture in our opening.
We used the website 'dafont' to research potential fonts to use for our thiller opening, after looking at various fonts such as 'horror sketch' and 'mouse handwriting' we felt that although both these fonts reflected the handwriting and the horror feature, the best font to use would be the 'beautiful horror', as it combined the scartchy and uneven look of the 'mouse handwriting' and the thin, scrawny lines used in 'horror sketch', and also best reflected the writing of the Zodiac, an aspect we really wanted to capture in our opening.
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