The Importance of Typography and Design

Order of Titles:

- Production Company 

- Director (always ends with director)

- Stars/ Talent (in order of status/ fame ) - Name of film 

- Crew

- Editor

- Writer (screen play)

- Producer 

- Director 

Typography of 'Catch me if you can'

Genre, Style/mood and narrative 

- Type writer, including old check writing - Typewriting (intel)

                                                               name= connotes two characters 

Formal= sheriff 

Informal= Runaway 

hiding and changing forms therefore adaptable to Leonardo's disguises 

The title sequence has a Saul Bass influence and starts off smoothly with the sick figure entering.

- The boldness used in the title sequence adds to the idea that it is a detective mystery genre. 

- Zoom in of the title

- Titles are interwoven to the fabric of the title sequence 

O Lord of the War 

Text - Sharp, masculine, block, capitals.

       - Similar size not too big 

       - subtle not too disruptive of the title sequence background

Forest Gump 

- Sherif 

- Timeless (period of time)

- Classic Quality 

- White feather with white text makes it appear peaceful and elegant. 

- Correct grammar 

- Center aligned 

- Old fashioned text placement ]

- subtle fade in and out 

- Gentle, soft and calming 



The importance of typography can also relate to the genre of the film for example bellow the font and style of the text suggests that the film will be part of the rom-com genre and moreover romance, which will fit the genre of our film. 

Moreover if styles and fonts are used such as the one bellow this would not fit the genre of our title sequence as the audience would relate this typography to the Horror genre.  Therefore this presenting just how important typography is. When creating my title sequence i will ensure that the font downloaded from "DA Font" fits to the conventions of my rom-com genre.

Furthermore these are some more of the fonts in which we are considering using in our title sequence.