Titling: Following or Challenging Conventions?

Titling is a very important part of making the best title sequence possible, as it creates the mood of the film and if it doesn't reflect the film's feel or meaning then it will not work right. Below are some notable thriller titles and the fonts they use in their title sequence.

 As you can see, the title card for 'Get Out' (2017) is very serious looking and feels intense to look at, building suspense, and the title cards for 'A Quiet Place' (2018) and 'IT' (2017) are scary looking fonts that instill fear in the viewer. Ours turned out a bit different. The font I used in the beginning of the title sequence was VCR OSD Mono, which is the font that VHS time stamps are in. The reason I used this font was because it challenges conventions, leaving the audience unsure of what to suspect, but it is still unsettling as it is vintage and ominous. It also ties in with the technological aspect of the film, as the typed word document is shown at the end when Lionel drops the laptop.

For the ending title card, I decided to use the DVORAK font, which follows conventions a lot more, as it is scratchy and much more menacing than VCR OSD Mono. This is shown after Lionel is attacked, which is important because now the audience knows that this is a scary/intense film and the font now reflects how they are feeling. If this font was used at the beginning, it would have raised the audience's suspicion from the start that it was going to be scary, so using this only at the end was effective in my opinion.

 I decided to keep the blinking cursor at the end of the text in the title card as well so it would stay similar to the way the text was shown the whole way through. On top of this I also included the green and magenta edges to the text, which was to make it look more digital camera-like if that makes sense. This was not much for a particular reason but I decided it was a nice touch to make it look a bit more intense.