Practical: Typography Credits Experiment

Typography: Credits Experiment

We have a strong use of symbols throughout our film opening so we decided to use symbols to represent some letters in the credits. I experimented with the similar letters we had within our names.

I decided to experiment both on paper and Photoshop with the letters we had in common:

We all have an M or W in our names, and because there isn't many symbols that can be made into an M shape. The texture of this font style represents a child's drawing which I deconstructed in an earlier blog post. I think that this letter would look good during the titles as it has the connotations of child's drawings and etching into a surface.
The letter can also be flipped to create the W in Bethany's name.

There are some O's in our names, and it is an easy letter to change into a symbol. I used inspiration from the Deathly Hallows symbol (shown on the left). I think that the symbol I drew (on the right) is a good interpretation of the existing symbol and still incorporates children's drawings. I think it could be improved by making the markings more sketched and less accurate.  

Three of us have E's in our name, which means that we can make the letter a common factor to customise. The first letter (left) would be a good letter to use as it still resembles an E but is a different typeface to the rest of our letters. The letter looks slight scrawled which fits in to the etching effect. The middle letter also looks drawn/etched but is lower cased which may not fit into the credits as well as one in capitals, it may make it look strange and not effective. 

The third letter (right) is also a capital but it has sharp edges, this resembles an E better than the first but also looks to accurate to be scrawled, reducing the eerie effect. 

We all have multiple A's in our names which means that it will be a very used symbol. A is easy to manipulate into a symbol. I decided to use a star to represent a letter as it has references to the pentagram - a symbol enticing sinister forces. The drawing on the left is more likely to be read as an A, but as an improvement I would make it more accurate and in scale rather than having the width larger than the height.

 The drawing on the right is drawn better than the other but it may be harder to resemble an A. It resembles the Star of David, a symbol used in Judaism, also known as the Shield of David, expelling evil forces, the opposite of the pentagram. It would be best to use the other symbol to avoid confusion and to reduce the risk of it causing offence.

Evaluation

What went well:

• The symbols are simple and will look good in our typography used in the titles
• They are easy to draw and can therefore be easily re-done on a graphics tablet

Even better if:

• The symbols only cover some of the letters in our titles so we will need to choose the typography for the other letters used
• Some of the symbols only slightly resemble the letter i.e. the star and an A, so could cause confusion