Use of titles:

How did you use titles and how did they advertise your film in your trailer?

The first title we are introduced to is our Institution logo "Le Duckelle Films" which we created in our AS Year on a software called "Paint.Net". This production title fades into the shot through the waves, which is usually progressed in indie movies, a white minimalist logo on a moving image background. We decided to progress this on a moving image background as opposed to a black background as it fits better with our genre, and looks professional. The use of white font also adheres to our indie aspect of genre. Additionally, by using the same institution logo as last year, the audience are introduced to a recognisable feature and this will bring in the audience from our previous production.

Moonwalk Film Festival was created by myself on "Paint.Net" in attempt to mimic that of "Sundance Film Festival" without copyright. I found a basic font, and placed that white, and created the design by using different shapes on "Paint.Net" to replicate the Sundance logo.

We wanted to make our titles as minimal as possible because minimal titles are more associated with our chosen genre. Typically, a Horror would suggest an out there title, whereas "Indie" movies tend to follow through with a basic minimal white logo. The use of having our own Film festival logo conforms to our genre, as this is most common in Coming of Age movies, it woulf be unusual seeing this in big production Horrors as the use of a film festival institution is for smaller and independent movies.

Here, we have our Green band Trailer of which we created on "Paint.Net" replicating both the red and green bands to create our own that would suit our rating. We wanted to be original by creating our own personal band for Marmalady, taking aspects from mainly the Green band, for example the colour. The use of "Appropriate" audiences was a mixture between "All" from the typical green band, and "Restricted" from the red band. Instead of suggesting the film was promoted by the "Motion picture association of America" we created our own title to fit our Production and Company, "Indie Filmmaker Association of Surrey" therefore giving it our own identity and also a comic appeal to the Trailer. The certificate part of the band was simply created using square boxes and the line drawer on Paint.Net, we filled this with what you would associate a 15 to be, although this is hard to pick out from the trailer, we had the general idea that this could be a raunchy film, but to an extent in our trailer, we conformed to this rating through the use of profanity from both Sam and Lola.

Marmalady's title was the most important to the Trailer, as it brings the Trailer together. We needed to pick a font that would symbolise both the protagonist and film. We went onto google and searched "Indie font download" and came across several potential fonts before choosing the final one which was titled "Shady Lane". We wanted to create an innocent and lighthearted atmosphere through the use of colour, however we didn't want to be dull and go for the common use of white, so we went for a baby blue colour, which connotes youth, youth and growing up is the main aspect of Coming of Age movies. This was additionally successful as the use of baby blue suggesting youth fit well over the narration followed through in the end scene where Lola reflects on what she's learnt throughout the movie. Evidently, Coming of age movies tend to have titles in different colours to enhance their individuality and quirkiness, white/ black font is typically progressed in Thrillers or Action movies as they don't want to use vibrant colours, as this would subvert their genre.

For the credits, we took a simple text that I had pre-downloaded a while ago, as I dabble in graphic design. We wanted to replicate the most common typography for credits, however, slightly conforming to our genre. We stuck to the theme of Baby blue as this looked good over the grass. In our credits, we firstly displayed the Actors names, followed with Writers, Directors and Producers, and lastly involving the names of the People who helped us create Marmalady with their own Soundtracks.

The "Coming Soon" was a downloaded brush stroke effect, this conformed to our genre as the handwritten effect is primarily progressed in these type productions, connoting youth and life, due to its adolescence nature.