We spent time watching different Zombie themed opening title sequences to see if there was a common theme for the titles in zombie horrors. We noticed that there were popular fonts used in this theme of film.
In all of these titles, the font is bold and striking which gives the audience a sense of fear. Some of the titles are coloured in a blood shade to show the slasher sub-genre, we thought about using this in our title too. Some of the titles have a slightly eroded feel, which would show how something has been left to evolve or mutate over time, like the ebola disease. We would also use this in our title.
COMING UP WITH OUR FILM TITLE:
Our film is about an ebola mutation pandemic which sweeps over the world turing civillians into flesh eating zombies.
We spent a long time deliberating over a title for our film, some of our ideas were:
Disease
Virus
Infected
Ebola
Raging Contagen
In the end, we preferred the title Pathogen. We liked this title the most as is was memorable and to the point and links in with the film.
We spent a long time deliberating over a title for our film, some of our ideas were:
Disease
Virus
Infected
Ebola
Raging Contagen
In the end, we preferred the title Pathogen. We liked this title the most as is was memorable and to the point and links in with the film.
CHOOSING A FONT FOR OUR TITLE: |
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We did not choose this font for our title as it is too bloody and too gory and does not convey the genre of our film very well.
This font would suggest a cartoon/animated film, which is not what our film is based on.
We liked this strong bold font but we did not feel as though it conveyed the danger and the gore that we presumed a ebola zombie pandemic would.
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This font would suggest a romance genre, which is not compatible with our zombie/slasher genre.
This font is not good for our title as this could suggest a sci-fi theme/genre.
This font is eroded and looks decrepit but we did not like this one as much as the last as it does not look so strong and striking.
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FINAL FONT:
We liked all of these fonts as they are all strong and striking and look like a typical zombie horror title. The edges are slightly eroded to show how the disease could destroy/kill people.