Edits of the Fonts (Editing Part 2)

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Aside from the visual aesthetics and sound aspects that we have to edit for our film opening, we must also add our title and a credit sequence at some point throughout the opening. We want the credits to be scattered throughout the beginning montage and we actually have two options where we think that the title could be placed in. However, all this is for naught if we don't have good visuals with which to implement these credits, and, by this, I mean we need a good font.

Sofia last week took some time to scour through programs like Canva to find a font that she thought we could use for both the title and the credit sequence, and she found a lot of good options. In her own blog she talked about five specific fonts that she found and these were Alice, Della Respira, The Seasons, Amatic SC, and Sunday. After talking about it, we decided that Alice and Sunday were two of our favorites for this project. We thought that both of them were fun and quite whimsical for the teenage summer aesthetic we wanted, yet they still held some of the seriousness we are including in the themes of our film. Here are how Sofia tested them both out with the title of our film.

Alice                                                         Sunday

Since we had to decide between both of these, and we couldn't, we actually reached the conclusion that we didn't really need to pick between the two. Sunday looked much more like a font fit for a title—the uniformity of the capital letters, the uniqueness of the letters' serifs and spacings—while Alice keeps a little more to its seriousness and simplicity—the inclusion of lowercase letters and the simplicity of each character. It was because of this that we decided we'd stick with Sunday for the title then switch over to Alice for all the other credits, so that they'd be easier to read and they wouldn't be in the way or the first thing that draws your eye when they come on screen, allowing us to keep the focus on the scene happening at the moment.

With this decided we can now move forward to including them in our film opening as we continue to edit the project. This will begin happening next week as this week is almost over and we need to shoot some new scenes and re-shoot some of our poorer shots from this week during the weekend. It'll be very exciting to add all of our credit sequences since it will look all the more professional and I'm personally very excited for the title as it encompasses the entirety of this project.