Friday, 24 January 2014

ER; Title Research

True Detective (2014) — Art of the Title

Assess:
The title appears through a closing gap in the shape of a cross before vanishing. This has religious connotations, which is something often featured in horror. The writing has a texture to it which reflects the hellish scenes shown previously, like flames. The font is bold (vital to see the texture) in capital evenly spaced characters while the colours used are all shades of red to portray death, danger and hell. The actual title is portrayed to actually be printed on the metal cross which makes it conveys realism. It then disappears in a distorted movement into the cross, as if it is being swallowed up with the light. The image can already be seen through the cross which shows the silhouette of an expanse of grass with fire.

How we will take inspiration:
We have looked into many title sequences for inspiration, this one stood out as we believe it is possible to recreate and will make our horror opening much more professional looking and even scarier. We want to use the method of showing the image through the cross in our piece because we feel it will be very effective in establishing the horror genre.


 

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