Firstly, we looked at Catch Me If You Can (2002). This placed two different fonts next to each other. The serif font reminded us of a typewriter, which we thought could relate to Tom Hank's character of a policeman. This was because he would have had to type up reports on a typewriter, also relating to the time period the film is set in.
The second font was a sans serif font, which was used to create parts of the images on screen. It is much more fluent than the serif font; changing and flowing into different objects. This could represent Leonardo DiCaprio's character as he moves around the world with different identities and professions. They are placed at the sides of the screen a lot, to allow the audience to focus on the images telling the story.
After looking at Catch Me If You Can, we then looked at Lord of War (2005). The font used for this title sequence gave us an idea that it was very military as it was in blocks, capitals and sans serif. This title sequence can relate to Catch Me If You Can because this sequence uses a considerably small font which will draw the attention to the video going on the the background which tells the story. An exception tot this would be the title which was massively larger text and was central. However, unlike Catch Me If You Can the text did not correlate to the action and had very little if not, no movement at all.
The last title sequence we looked at was Forrest Gump (1994). The genre of this film is drama/romance, therefore has a centered serif font, which fades in and out in a sort of dreamy manner which correlates tot eh genre of the film. The text is very plain, possibly connoting the main character. We also established that serif fonts are considered formal, posh, classic and timeless.
In my title sequence, I will use a sans serif font as my genre is a thriller/horror film, not matching any of the films that we looked at, I will use a scratchy font that will show this and it will also better suit my genre.
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