Wednesday, 5 February 2014

A Lesson On Typography

In this lesson we spoke about the importance of typography, we looked at three title sequence in particular; "Catch Me If You Can", "Lord Of The War" and "Forest Gump".

First of all we spoke about the normal and conventional order of the titles which are as the following:

- Production Company's (normally big production company's first then smaller ones follow)
- Then the name of whoever's film it is which is normally the director
- Stars of the film or talent in the order of who is the most famous
- Title or name of the film
- Crew members
- Editor
- Writer
- Producers e.g. Producer, Executive Producer and Co-producer
- Then at the end the Director should appear.

  Typography for Catch Me If You Can:

- The titles appear as if its been done by a typewriter or and old cheque format.
- There are two types of font, one being Serif which is formal and the other being San-serif which is more informal so this tells the audience that there is maybe two characters, one that is more formal and another which is less formal.
- Has quite a big Saul Bass influence on it, you can see this from the shapes and objects making up the scenes and that it is animated.
- Most of the titles attach there selves to objects and things within the animated scenes to hint and show that one of the characters which is Leonardo Dicaprio, disguises himself within his surroundings to help hide from the man chasing him.

Typography for Lord Of War:

- The titles are bold and masculine, and are all done in block capitals to add the effect that they are important.
- Sharp edged and medium sized but mostly all centred to show again their importance.
- The title of the film is separated so that Lord and War are not seen as the same thing it creates the effect that they are two different things.


Typography of Forest Gump:

- The typography in this title sequence is very conventional and classic.
- Serif shows that the titles are formal.
- White writing and white feather connotes it being peaceful and elegant.
- The text is all centre but because it is in white it does not draw to much attention, and it fades in and out very calmly.
- Old style text with the use of capital letters.

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