Film Title Font Analysis

For my short film, I had a struggle to decide upon a final font which I would use. At first, I simply used I-Movie fonts, which were amateur in appearance. These titles can be seen in the post below.
The first draft of my short film using titling used futura medium. This was the worst font to use as it took no ability to implement and made the piece look positively average. The next font I used was Impact. This font similarly was ineffective and the tweet from Jeremie Crystal stating that the font in the film looked to I-Movie clarified that I would have to change. As a result, I changed the system on which I was operating and uploaded the film on to Final-cut pro. I was able to upload fonts from Dafont on to Final cut pro that would use this titling.

Below is the first font I experimented with on Final Cut pro. The Annabelle Script was a good font, however still looked somewhat amateurish and did not reflect the nature of my short film. It almost seemed to light hearted and dreamy, which was the opposite effect I wanted to portray. As a result, I quickly discredited this font as an option for my short film.

The font below was the next font I attempted to use for my short film. The font is called Russian. Similarly to Annabelle Script, I did not use this as it was confusing and aspects of it would take away from the cinematography in my film.

Euro Metro was the next font I used as another potential font for my short film. This unlike the previous two was a strong potential font that I would use. It did not take away from the cinematography and was serious, similar to the film. However, it seemed too much like the font that would be used in an action film. For this reason, I could not use it as it did not represent my film effectively.

Below is the final font that I used for my short film. The Helvetica font was simple, yet effective. The reason for this was that it was simplistic and did not detract from the cinematography. Moreover, the font moulded well into the framing of the shot and gave it a professional appearance.









Below is the grid of Helvetica letters, just to show the basic outline of all the available letters in the fot that I used.