Deconstruction: Typography
The effect of typography used in Possession Horror films
In our film opening we are planning to have the titles on a black screen to end. To ensure that the typography we use is effective for our sub-genre of horror, we will have to research common possession film conventions.
I will be researching the typography used during the opening titles of The Exorcist.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a supernatural horror film from 1973, it is originally a novel. The film starts with a short sequence with no titles, before a black background and red writing appears.
The first name to appear is the directors name. It is all in capitals, the name being the largest of the three lines. The background is black and the writing is the all the same shade of red. The letters are thin and close together. The colour represents danger as red is a common symbol of this.
The next titles comes straight after the first. The font and colour are the same, and the size is the same although there is only 2 lines instead of the 3 before. The titles says 'William Peter Blatty's', referring to the original novel by this author.
The next title screen is the title of the film - 'The Exorcist'. It is in the same font and colour, although the words are larger and therefore take up more of the black background. The words are central and take up two lines. The size difference is a effective use of typography as it makes the audience suspect the beginning of the film to start after the title screen.
We could use this effect in our film opening. We could titles increasing in size until our film title appears. We could also use red writing as it is a common horror convention due to the connotations with blood and danger. I don't think we will take ideas from the font as it is quite plain and will not show much skill in typography and Photoshop editing. I don't believe it has much effect.
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