Fonts

Fonts are key as they introduce a theme into your opening. They introduce your film essentially. If they don't follow the same mood as the film opening then they fail to establish your film. Therefore we are looking to create a British gangster grittiness atmosphere through the use of a criminal looking font. We quite liked the idea of having the titles on a black screen, breaking up the shots- similar to how Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels uses this effect.

Lock Stock opening title

I liked the look of this font as it is the same font as a reg. number on a car. This gives connotations of stealing cars or doing illegal acts of injustice using cars. The fact that cars are on roads and the lives of these people revolve around the work they do on the streets, makes this font establish a surreptitious connection. Visually the letters look robust but quite parodical in the sense that we are using a font typically associated with cars and the legality of owning a car; this plays on the immorality of the characters and also gives it a hint of dark comedy in the opening, alike to many British gangster films.

This font, indifferent to the previous font also shows a dark realism to the cynicism of a modern gangster society. However this font gives off more of a dark, hard feel to it. The letters, aesthetically suggest a violent and aggressive notion which may come from the characters; effectively initiating a dark undertone for the piece to follow. The letters almost look spray painted in their effect- this emphasises the illegal acts that are to follow by linking the opening to the illegal act of defacing property: in essence, defacing our opening.

Our last choice has more of an order and discipline to it, however it connotes, more so than the others, this idea of aggression and intimidation. The font has links to the military. The law and order of the army juxtaposes the immorality and cynicism of the characters but in some sense suggests that this gang of men work like the army and share and promote a superiority through terror and power. In contrast it also shows a corruption through this power; the juxtaposition of the two creates an ominous sense of immorality. I would like the title to be revealed as though it was done on a type writer or in a similar fashion where the letters appear one by one.