We used dafont.com to help us find a suitable font for our title sequence. In order to do this, we searched through the 'horror' and 'destroyed' themed section as we believed this is where we would find something that would tie in with both our genre, and general style of the film. We then narrowed it down to three fonts by using our film title as the sample text, and selecting those that we felt were most appropriate. After doing so, we imported them onto a photoshop document to compare and select our favourite font.
We then proceeded to modify our fonts to give them a more dynamic feel. We decided to use a red colour as the basis of our fonts for several reasons. As well as the denotation that it is the colour of blood, red also connotes many things. Primarily red can be seen to represent things such as danger and anger, which tie in with the plot and iconography in our film.
We decided on using the first font as we felt that the shape and style resembled blood, reminding us of the effect produced when bloody hands are pressed against paper. We experimented with overlaying different shades of red with the brush tool, in order to give it a sense of realism and also to add another dimension to it,
Although this previous attempt was our most successful yet, we still felt that the font was missing something, and didn't quite have the sense of gore and drama we desired. In order to overcome this, we decided to use brushes found on google to add blood splatters to the font. We used overlaying and the smudge tool in order to incorporate the brushes to our font, and blend it into the letters. We feel this has created an effective font that successfully conveys the genre and overall feel of our film.
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