Film Evaluation - Fonts

Many different fonts were looked at on LiveType, and most discarded from our thoughts straight away. There were hundreds of different fonts on LiveType, so many were not even looked at or registered as options. Instead we decided to look for more famous fonts that are commonly used in word documents and everyday media products such as newspapers.

The decisions now included questions such as, serif fonts vs. sans-serif fonts, will the fonts be Bold or Italics, and the size of the fonts.

Eventually we made a calculated decision to go with a Serif font, which looks very formal and in a very 'Gothic horror' style. This is very subversive to the modern environment that the film is set in, and coupled with the radio voice over, will hopefully sound almost like a modern day 'Jack the Ripper' case.


The still from the film shows the font that we ended up using for the titles sequence. Letters fell into place from above, then dropped out below. The random sequence for these letters is meant to connote the random killing attitude of the antagonist that is being mentioned in the audio.

Film Planning - LiveType

The Programme we have chosen to use for the titles in our film is LiveType. This is the best software available on the Mac computers and contains a variety of different fonts, styles and animations to use in the titles.

From looking through the livetype fonts and animations, it is clear that they are much better than the font and effect found and used on imovie. Proffesional opening sequences often have much more complex titles than a simple white font scrolling across a black background.

Film Planning - Titles

To make the title sequence interesting, the original idea of having a plain black screen with the titles was scrapped, and replaced with a more complex and interesting montage of roads and streetlights, with the occasional still shot.

The audio has also been edited to include radio reports, volume fading in an out on each report, highlighting the important details of the cases to create a tense atmosphere.

A copy of the film with the original title sequence can be found below.