In an opening sequence, we noticed that the typography of the people involved and the title itself is key to the audience's understanding of, and feelings towards, the action.
We felt that the font of subtitles for those involved in the process should differ from that of the title - "Conservatorium", feeling that those for the title should more effectively convey the nature of the film but the names should perhaps just be clean cut and interact with the action - with no clear connotations but subtleties that reinforce the character's attention to detail. With this in mind, we narrowed the options down to the following options; 'Acquaintance', 'Blackadder ITC', 'Bleeding Cowboys', and 'Palace Script MT'.
We decided that in use of our title, the font 'Acquaintance' wasn't relevant enough to the characteristics and themes we were trying to portray, and seemed in a sense too childish.
With regards to 'Blackadder ITC', we feel that - whilst it does strongly convey our antagonist's character and his classic, OCD tendencies - it is somewhat ambiguous and hard to read.
This font is one that was in huge contention for the final font, however whilst it strongly reflected our antagonist, we concluded it didn't portray the horror theme enough to be the font of what ultimately is a gruesome, psychological horror film.
Our final decision was to use 'Bleeding Cowboys' as our font for the title 'Conservatorium'. This is because we felt it was the best ratio of gritty horror themes to the neat calligraphic implications intended.
This is an example of our potential font for all titles but the title "Conservatorium". We believe this is suitable as it is easily readable, whilst maintaining the clean cut finish desired. This is also a strong idea as it relates to that of those researched in Hannibal (Scott, 2001) and also portrays our antagonist's obsession with cleanliness.
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