Foundation Portfolio: Opening Credits - Draft (By Ben Cave)

For the first drafts for the opening credits, we used a very threatening font, to display the fact that the subject of the product was one of danger, and to complement the equally threatening background audio.

For a lot of these shots, we tried to attach the text to an object in the shot, to make it seem as if the opening credits really existed in the world in which the story was taking place.

Some of the team members thought that this font looked a lot like it was designed more for a horror film than for a thriller, and expressed that the tails on the letters looked like blood trails.

The text font that we chose for the new opening credits was a lot cleaner than the original one, and looked more like what would be used for a thriller: bold, but not as threatening as what would be used for a horror film.

For many of the shots, we also decided that it would not be a good idea to try to make it seem as if the text was part of the world, so we made it stick out from the world, in order to make it obvious that it was not.

We also changed the colour scheme to red, as we thought that blue was to passive a colour to be used in this product, especially when combined with the new, more passive text font.