Title Fonts

In my search for finding a font for the title of my film, I decided to look on FontSpace and DaFont. These websites allow users to download free fonts to use in most softwares on the computer. Before making a decision on which font I wanted to use, I thought I would research into fonts used in horror films beforehand, before making a collection of some of my favourite fonts and choosing from there.

Saw II Font

Some characteristics of the Saw II title logo:

• Simplistic font, not cliched in the sense of blood trails, yet implies that the name of the film is written in blood (uneven writing, small amount of trails left between the 'S' and 'A')
• 'W' in the shape of a devil's pitchfork to create a sense of horror.
• 'Saw' slightly out of focus - well known brand image/name and emphasises two fingers, which has a greater effect on the audience, whilst telling them the film's genre.
• Shadow of fingers - very simplistic, creates a sense of realism.

These tag clouds were extremely helpful in finding relevant fonts

 

After much deliberation, I decided to use the first font, because the genre is not overtly obvious. I may add a sign such as an upside down cross so the audience understand the genre and so I can efficiently target the correct audience, as with the fingers in the Saw II font.