When deciding what text we were going to use for the titles, we wanted it to suit the horror/slasher genre of our film. We wanted it too look rough and originally wanted a text that looked quickly hand-drawn. We began by looking at text that would have this effect. The first typography that we considered was 'Bradleyhand' typography. Whilst it gave the 'hand-written effect' we wanted it looked too 'teenager' and didn't fit the horror film genre.
The next text we looked at was 'chalkduster'. We considered this as a possible option as it had a rustic look and still looked hand-written. However, we decided to not use this one as whilst it had the effect we wanted, it didn't fit a slasher film
The final text we looked at was Octin Spraypaint at a scale size of 67.0. Whilst this typography didn't have the hand written effect we originally wanted, it was suitable for our genre but also looked like a type writing effect which gave it an aged feel which made it look rustic. We chose for the text to be white, as it stood out on the screen as a lot of our clips were dark. Capital letters were used to make it more dramatic.
To make it look like it was appearing in the scene, as if painted on the wall, we had to rotate the text to line up along the wall. In the picture below you can see the name 'Tom Hiddleston' has been turned to match up with the metal bar. We rotated it 3%.
For a more dramatic effect we wanted to make the text appear as if static was moving the text about on the screen. We looked on the effects options on Final Cut Pro and found a 'bad TV' effect where you can manipulate the text to look static. However, when we added it onto the text it caused the text to disappear. Instead we included a transition effect called 'feature' which made the letters appearing in a canon sequence.
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