Fonts: Title

While looking for suitable fonts for the title we found this font called Stainy, here is a picture of it:

We chose this font because it resembles writing in lipstick. We felt this helps to highlight the scenes which have the lipstick and to help represent the femininity of the two characters. This also helped to give a bit of an edge to our opening as women are often seen as weak, and the feminine font helped to portray this but the opening sequence is showing a murder scene.

The main font we will use is called Benchnine:

We chose this font because it is a much cleaner and more simplistic font. This has a cold feeling towards it to help give an unfriendly look. This represents the themes that will be coming up in our film and help to suggest that the characters aren't as innocently girly as the seem. Also this particular font is very close together and this makes it very easy to put onto our movie opening.

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Genre: Thriller

Me and Jess chose our second theme would be thriller. This is the genre we went for in the end. We chose this theme because the genre has  more room to add content as the horror genre sticks very rigidly to existing conventions. Also the horror genre is used very frequently in AS media openings so we decided to go with something different.

After our research these are the main points that we found summeried:

• Protagonist at mercy of antagonist
• Montages of shots
• Quick cuts
• Tension music
• Protagonist is brave male trying to restore equilibrium 
• Revenge
• Use of mirrors to 'see' into the character's soul

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Questionnaire: Horror

Here is a Questionnaire that I wrote a few questions to and ask my audience about the horror genre

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Genres: Horror

When discussing themes with Jess we came to a disicion on what theme we will use in our openning sequence. We are going to either use a horror or a thriller theme. So here are some conventions of the horror genre:
The setting is usual far away from people, whether in the mountains, similar to The shinning, or in the contryside, similar to A cabin in the woods, and most typically a haunted house. Usually this setting is unfamilar to the characters.
Another convention is iconography. In a lot of films these are repeated, such as low key lighting, monsters or a mad man. The mise-en-scene is very important here too. Starting with the low key lighting, this gives a very haunted and dark feel to the films. This also limits the character's and the audience's view of what is happening and movies can use the dark to trick us in thinking that there is something there as we cannot clearly see what is happening. Some props such as kinves or chainsaws are used often as they are very dangrous weapons that a person on their own cannot defend against, helping to induce a feeling of fear and defencelessness.

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