EP: Titles

Earlier in the project I began to think about the titles for my film, as the branding of the film would play a large part in advertising and gaining interest. However, I have always struggled when it comes to title cards, as I never know which text to go fro, or whether I want to create my own hand-drawn text that I can animate.

So for a short while I was stumped. I did however finally settle on creating hand-drawn text, as this would allow me to have an animated title within my film, which I believed would fit in better than a static one, as the entire animation is hand drawn and has the same line quality.

With that in mind, I began to write the title of the film, which I had decided wold be Emily's Plague after a long discussion with Sylvia and other peers. I decided to set it up so that the title would sit above the character test I had done to make sure that the overall style of it would relate to the overall film.

Title tests

However, I wasn't feeling all that optimistic and just felt as though I was not quite hitting the mark, so I decided that I would continue to work on the animation and come back to the titles at a later date. 

Returning to the titles after focusing on the animating really helped me to choose a font that I was happy with. I wanted to keep the lines simple and clear to match the quality of the line work within my film and to also make it easy to use it across my entire branding. In the end I chose a simple title that I feel fits in with the aesthetic of the film. 

Final title design

I am happy with the titles at this point, however, if I feel the need to re-visit these at any stage, I think I will reach out to a graphic designer to help, as they will be more experienced and could design something unique for the film.