STEEL TONGS!!

I have come across the font called "steel tongs" which is used within film posters for the credit blocks. I have downloaded and I am considering using it within my own film poster which is currently being produced.

Making a start on my film poster...

Whilst filming, there was a particular shot that inspired my plans for my poster, so I took a photo of this to remind me. This turned out to be quite a good quality shot so I drew up a rough plan of what I wanted my film poster to look like.

I started editing it today, and after finding a font I like and that I think is suitable for my particular genre, I have been able to add a bit of text also.

Here is my first go...

I cropped the image so that there is a white strip along the top and the bottom, giving a bit of individuality compared to other film posters. I then added a black and white layer, tampered with brightness and contrast, and then added a blur. I then removed the blur slightly around the silhouette of the main character so that your focus is drawn to that part of the image. I then added the title of my film to the part of the image I want to put it, to see how it looks.

I am very happy with how this is looking so far as I have achieved the look I was aiming for.

Change in font

After producing a few titles in the font I chose, (see earlier post) I have decided to look for another font to use and I'm not completely happy with it. I found that the font I was using, Ubahn, was overly simple. I still want to use a simple font, but I would like it to be recognisable to those watching the trailer.

I have a found a few more fonts, including;

This font called "Fragment Core" is still simple, but has more of a recognisable edge to it. However it is still not the kind of font I'm looking for...

I then finally came across a font called 'Cicle'...

I have chosen this font as the one I will use for my intertitles and most probably my ancillary products as well so that I have a running similarity through out all of the products.

I like this font as it is simple, however has a certain individual edge to it. Another reason why I chose this font, is that there are three

different types creating a variety within the font...

NEW target audience

Now that the genre of my film change has taken a drastic turn from originally planned, the audience demographic has changed alongside it.

Due to the storyline being about the youth of today, it may attract a younger urban audience, particular teenagers. This is due to the fact that the film deals with issues that are found amongst the younger generation of modern times.

However, I believe the main will not be of a typical age. It will attract people that go to see films for the producer, rather than going to watch action packed hollywood films.

Editing has begun

I have started editing my footage together using Final Cut Express, which I haven't had much experience with in the past. Progress is slowly but surely coming, and I have managed to edited some of my main footage for the trailer with filters and different transitions.

Font for titles

The process for choosing the font for my titles used in the trailer has been relatively easy. I used the ever useful
website DaFont which is an archive of fonts free to download. I knew I wanted to use a simply sans serif font as that fits the typical conventions of a trailer for a film of the social realism genre. After looking through the Sans Serif category, I came across a few that I had to choose from. They were;

I finally decided on using the font called UBahn, as I think this is the most simplistic and straightforward of the three I chose. The other two seemed over "fancy" for the gritty social realism film trailer I want to put together.

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