Typeface Development, Title and Credits

 This is a blog for our movies typface development, title and credits.

- Example that we like:

1. Fluroescent Adolescent

2. Teenage Dirtbag

3. Decent Men

4. Buldingsroman

- What credits/names will you include:

1. Actors: Sagara, Alex, Panji, Kenneth.

2. Director.

3. Production Company, Distributor Company.

-Typeface Exapmles:

   Originally we struggled to find what theme or style of text we want our title to be in, eventually though we settled with a style that resembles grafiti as we believed that it'd resonate best with our film genre and the story we are trying to bring up. Some of the fonts we chose looked handwritten in the form of grafiti, implying that the youngsters are responsible for writing the text which in this case is our movie title. Grafiti is also heavily associated with anti establishment, anti authority, and in general rebellion by the youth, this somewhat relates to the character and plot of our movie opening.

   Some of the chosen fonts display the text in grafiti form with excess ink dripping from the text itself, this enforces the fact that characters are improper, untidy, and in general displays their chaotic and immature nature.

   After much consideration, we ended up with 2 promising choices.

Option 1

   The first option sticks true with our preference with the grafitti aesthetic. We like it because it is not uniform in terms of the angle that each letters are presented in, it reflects the personalities of the characters as it is not formal and messy. The font also displays a degree of eccentrism, since it seems bold, bright, and thick, showing it in a way that makes it feel like it's in their face. The color used (black and white) also reflects the fact that our movie will also be displayed in black and white.

Option 2

   The second options somewhat diverts from our prefrence of the grafitti aesthetic, instead it looks akin to a thick highlighter font. We like it because it is less bold, less formal, and more uniform in contrast to the first option, we think that the fact its less bold and formal means that they aren't brash and open as a group, instead they're simply a underground, small time group of misfits who simply wish to do their own thing.

   We ended up choosing the second option because we believe that it is more toned down, as compared to the first one which I believe is a bit too much.

   After careful deliberation, we as a group decided to branch out and try to find other options for our film name since we believe that "Decent Boys" sounds a bit off. Our options included; Fluroscent Adolesence, Teenage Dirtbag, Bildungsroman (German for Coming of Age), The List, Marked For Death. Eventually we agree on the name "Marked For Death".

- This is our final decision on the typeface.

Self Reflection:

   Unfortunately we did not use any of the typeface I originally researched since they all felt either somewhat too much or just didn't fit our inteded theme and vibe of the movie, the website I used also had a large variety of typefaces but none of them fit what we wanted. For a while the typeface research went AWOL, but eventually our editor thankfully got a good one that I think fits our theme and looks somewhat similar to Se7en so many thanks to him.