Titles and fonts

For the title of our film 'Somnium' we had to look at different films to see what they all looked like to get some inspiration and to investigate what different horror films use to establish their genre for their film. 

It slowly became apparent that the use of a dark (usually black) background or a key picture from the film was used as the background for the title. This can establish the genre by having a black background because it connotes darkness etc. However, a picture from an image from the film could act as a selling point and could be a key idea from the film. 

For the actual titles, however, it was clearly seen that the vast majority of them were in red fonts. This could connote love, but this is highly unlikely for a horror film. In these cases it can connote anger and blood which are all powerful, negative things that lead us to think about death and consequently the genre of horror.

All these titles are also all capitalised, which gives us the idea that they're to be shouted. This creates more of an effect and impacts us more as the audience. 

From these examples we can apply them to our production by having a dark background or an image from our trailer with a big font over the top. I think we could capitalise it to make it stand out more and reinforce the genre of horror.