title brainstorm and fonts

If you’ve been paying close attention to my blog posts, then you might already know that I’ve had an idea for the title of my film for a while now. But here is a necessary post about how I actually got to this name.

 

Keeping the theme of greek mythology, I figured my title should allude to this in some way. I want it to relate to the myth of Icarus, which would work well since the beginning of the opening is about Iris working on a project about this myth. I don’t want it to be obvious thought, I want those who know the myth be the ones who can point out where I got the title from so during a rewatch they can notice the similarities between Iris and Icarus. So, after some intense brainstorm I came up with the title: Fallen. I choose this because Icarus falls from the sky, just like how Iris falls from what she is expected to be. Her parents want her to be the perfect angel and her friends want her to be more normal, but her coming out acts as a catalyst for her fall. However, unlike Icarus, she survives the fall and finds a life that is better than before. She meets new friends, those who accept her for who she is and won’t criticize her for being herself. She falls, but she gets back up again, and I want that to be the most important part of the film, so by having Fallen be my title, I can show this. 

Now onto fonts. On my editing platform, there are options for different variations of title fonts, so as I was looking at them, I came across one that was called JITTER. This title style was an animation of the title one letter at a time, with a slight wobble effect. I choose this style because I feel like it embodies the mysterious nature of the film, and also aligns well with the coming of age genre (at least in my eyes). The font that I chose was one called Open Sans Condensed, which is very simple and again I feel like it just captures the title perfectly. This font is also the one that I’m going to use for the credits that are placed throughout the beginning of the opening.

[the title sequence, with a cool sound effect of a typewriter cause I thought it was cool]

[picture of the font that I used for the credits]

Oh yeah, and I decided the order that I would put the credits in, which is:

1. Major actors

2. music producer

3. writer

4. editor

5. cinematographer

6. director

7. producer

[basically how I feel right about now]