Creation of a Production Company logo

These are some screen shots of the creation of my logo for my production company, Hopping Mad, which I created in Photoshop. I plan to add the lettering for the logo in Final Cut.

Experimenting with Title Fonts

In Final Cut I made a few dummy sequences just for the film's title itself.

I added the sound effect of a camera shutter to synchronise with each letter coming up to reinforce the idea that 'Capture' did not just mean to capture the physical bodies of the victims but to capture their images with a camera.  I got the sound effect from Garageband and imported the file into Final Cut.  I don't think the sound is completely realistic so need to find another one or record my own. I imported a number of different fonts from Dafont,

 

as I did not think any of the fonts already installed on Final Cut fitted the image I had in mind.

Originally I was going to have a font based on retro writing from the art-deco era or from the 40's which was inspired by the film 'The Third Man', as it was set in the late 40's.









I decided that this was too girly and that it would not fit the genre of the film, so I went for a more chunky masculine look, which looked better but it would have gone better with a violent thriller.







I finally decided on an uneven typewriter font which seemed to go better with the camera theme of the narrative and signified the realism of the approach I intended

I looked at other typrewriter fonts, like Courier, but thought their lines were too clean and precise.  I thought that the look of this typewriter font was best, as it has splodges and looks untidy which gives the viewers a sense of unease.

Title Fonts From Other Thrillers

The Orphan

Casino royale: James Bond

The Sixth Sense

In the first two images the typography is simple, using sans serif fonts.   The simplicity doesn't distract the audience too much from the background as the backgrounds give the audience an idea of the narrative. In the last image, the font is in serif capitals but remains simple as it is white on black.  The background isn't detailed so it doesn't give you any indication of what is going to happen.

Rough Cut 2 and Feedback

  

Feedback for First Rough Cut

I played the first rough cut to two members of my family and what they both said was that there were too many opening shots. So in my next rough cut I am going to remove all of the establishing shots/stills of the countryside and edit all the stills of the corpses into the action and narrative sequence to make the relationship between the main character and the photographs of the dead young people clearer. Some of the death shots were also quite similar and others were shots of the same person but in a different position and I realised that it didn't make much sense.

The sound at the end was a bit of a hiccup and will be cut out and there is a sound when the killer is walking through which will be edited or covered up in some way, maybe with the non-diagetic soundtrack that I will create, probably in Garageband.  I also intend making the photographs more obvious with the sound effect of a shutter click and some kind of flashlike transitions.

I still have to create the credits and may look at the Dafont website to see what fonts might suit the opening better.

First Rough Cut

I created a rough cut to get feedback before further editing.




I then got feedback (see next post)