Typography

In Wednesday's lesson this week we looked into the different typography in title sequences, which included looking into successful title sequences, as a class we looked into the following title sequences:

• Zombieland (2009)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Lord Of War (2005)

If our group was to take any influence of any of these title sequences it would most likely be 'Lord Of War' as we are looking to use point of view into our title sequence and the use of point of view camerawork has been done really well in that title sequence.

We also looked into Serif and Sans Serif during the lesson and the differences of them.

Serif: A small decorative flourish on the end of the strokes that make up letters and symbols.

Sans Serif: Fonts which do not have any flourishes at the end of strokes.

The typography in title sequences can be used to create the tone of the sequence in some occasions. For example when looking at Forrest Gump, the text was white and in a Serif font. This created a more calm and relaxing feel towards the film. The text was also contrasted to a feather on the screen whilst the text fades in and , which could connote the text being light and simple like a feather.