Made by me using Photoshop
In
action movies the use of small, unnoticeable print for credits is common. This
is because the movies of this genre usually have fast paced openings that
reveal important plot points for the movie. So in order to not distract the audience,
the credits usually have neutral colours with simple, thin fonts that are not
as eye catching as bold, big, colourful fonts which are usually used in movies with the genre of comedy. An example of a movie that follows the typical action movie credit style is Lone
Survivor.
Lone Survivor uses a simple black background with a plain white capitalised font for the credits. An interesting aspect of Lone Survivor's credits is that the names of important people have a bigger font size than the rest of the text, however it is still not big enough to grab the audience's attention.
I think this is the most effective font for this movie as the words are not distracting at all and are able to fade into the background. It is helpful as the fast pace of the movie along with the constant use of quick cuts help tell a big story which is essential to the main plot-line. Using such font helps keeps the audiences attention towards what is happening in the movie.
If brighter, bolder, and more colourful text was used, the audience would only be bothered by it and would be unable to pay attention to the story at hand. Text that are more colourful work with more lighthearted genre's-definitely not something we would be using as our film is set to tell a very serious story.
Recently a new trend has risen for movie credits to have their own opening sequences with made graphics. An example of such movies with the genre of action is Spy. Even though it is an interesting concept, due to the length of the film, and the complexity of the task of creating an animated sequence, the idea was not thought of by any of us to do.
In
our film opening my team and I are planning to create an effect similar to that of Lone Survivor's credits as we do not want to take our audience’s attention away from the action
that will be taking place on the screen. We will try to use font styles that are related to the action in our film but we will make sure it won't be too distracting for the audience. We will also stick with the neutral colour scheme most story-based film opening's have in order to keep our product nice and simple.
Lone Survivor uses a simple black background with a plain white capitalised font for the credits. An interesting aspect of Lone Survivor's credits is that the names of important people have a bigger font size than the rest of the text, however it is still not big enough to grab the audience's attention.
I think this is the most effective font for this movie as the words are not distracting at all and are able to fade into the background. It is helpful as the fast pace of the movie along with the constant use of quick cuts help tell a big story which is essential to the main plot-line. Using such font helps keeps the audiences attention towards what is happening in the movie.
If brighter, bolder, and more colourful text was used, the audience would only be bothered by it and would be unable to pay attention to the story at hand. Text that are more colourful work with more lighthearted genre's-definitely not something we would be using as our film is set to tell a very serious story.
Recently a new trend has risen for movie credits to have their own opening sequences with made graphics. An example of such movies with the genre of action is Spy. Even though it is an interesting concept, due to the length of the film, and the complexity of the task of creating an animated sequence, the idea was not thought of by any of us to do.
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