The Movies
But I'm A Cheerleader
We have chosen to look at the movie "But I'm A Cheerleader", which is our chosen LGBT movie. We liked the way that the font was quite simple and normal because it's almost as if it's trying to say that LGBT people portrayed in the film are normal as well and don't need some sort of extravagant, fancy font to make them stand out. We also liked the different colours because LGBT is often associated with bright colours (specifically colours of the rainbow) because of the LGBT flag, and it's as if this really got that across. However, we did not like the font itself, for our film. This is because this font seems too basic for what we had in mind as it does not show the difference and contrast between the two main characters, and also because it is not very professional.
Pretty Woman
Next we looked at the Pretty Woman font. We liked what this font was trying to get across for the film that it was used for. It's quite professional and you would expect the film to feature a businessman after seeing this font, which is exactly what happens as there is a businessman as one of the main characters. The colours of the font, white/grey with a black outline, look quite dull which again could represent the film as being quite professional, perhaps a little boring. This could work well with our movie because it is a professional font and it links to one of our characters perfectly. However, despite it being okay because it represents one character, there is still the problem of the second character as this font does not represent her because she is the exact opposite of professional. We may consider this font but for now it looks like it is not something we'd like to use for our film.
My Best Friend's Wedding
Lastly we looked at My Best Friend's Wedding. We found this font interesting because it's not just one font that was used. Two were. One of them is quite fancy and feminine and it looks hand-written while the other is the exact opposite, it looks quite masculine because it's completely in capitals and every single letter is the same size which is not the case with the first font. This could represent the difference between the two characters in the movie, more specifically the two women "fighting" over the man's love. We really like how they're different because it looks to be a very original idea and it's also quite a bright colour which highlights the fact that it's a comedy. The pink background could indicate the need for acceptance, support and unconditional love which is very similar to one of our main characters' personality. Because both fonts are different and seem to work quite well with each other, we think we may like to use something like this in the future when we have finished filming and editing our movie.
Our Choices
We have done some research on fonts we could use, following our recent study of fonts in existing films' opening credits, and these are some that we instantly felt attracted to. We have not decided between any of these fonts and we may or may not use them but for now this is a general idea of what we might want to use in the future.
EDIT:
The two fonts we decided to use were Engineering Plot and DJB My Boyfriend's Handwriting. The reason we picked these two is because of the way one of them is quite block-y and very simple while the other is girly. We felt like these two actually showed what our film was about more than any of the other fonts we looked at.
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