What the Font?

Most horror title sequences have edgier fonts for their introductions. Those who don't have edgy fonts are boring, and fairly unoriginal. I think the use of creative fonts helps with adding both a tone and a personality to the film. One of my favorite use of fonts that I have found is for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."  This font without the red color and blood dripping from it, would actually not be very horror-like. With that being said I think that element has to do with the fact that the movie is a horror-comedy. Therefore, the almost bubbly nature of the letters could be ironic. But, by adding those characteristics, there is a new persona about it. The red coloring alludes to both passion and lust, which are main characteristics of the movie itself. This is important because it is almost giving a theme to the movie without actually getting into the content. The basis of this can be utilized in our sequence- meaning, we can figure out how to denote a deeper meaning from just our font, and the color it is in.

Another title sequence font that I have come to like is the "American Horror Story" one. Unlike "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "American Horror Story" is a TV show that has different spinoffs (i.e. "Freak Show", "Cult", "Hotel"). But, the producers use the same font in all of them. This font, to me, just seems to have a creepy nature about it, which ties into the abnormal nature of the series. What I like most about this font is that it is irregular and just not normal, and "in horror of any kind, there are irregularities". This for e embodies a horrific, weird kind of tone that fits in with the whole series. The disproportionation of all of the letters just beautifully relate to the aim and actual characters of the show.

Both of these sequences have fonts that seem to just tie directly to the plot of the movie/series. Honestly, I never thought about if there was an in-depth meaning behind fonts until I actually looked at them and made connections. Therefore, I think that this knew knowledge will help us with enhancing our title sequence in order to make it the most horrific possible.

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