Fonts research- Producing our ideal font

 In order to make this font we looked through a variety of ready made titles so we could get an idea of what we wanted and then designed and made it on paint and photo shop. This made sure that we got the right look that we wanted at that time however it was not exactly what we wanted. We used this font, which we found during our research as it was the closest to the font we wanted to achieve.
In order to make it we used paint to begin with so we could use shapes and paint to make the design we wanted and then used photo shop to crop and make sure it was up to scratch. We reflected this idea off of our initial idea as we knew we then wanted to make it a lot more bold to ensure it stands out well. We also decided we wanted to have the background of the text to be black and the writing to be white as we thought it pursued more of a creepy effect. Also would look better when we put it in our film as we are making it seem tense when the titles bang in making it give a fright to the audience. We did this by converting the colours on a website which made the white background black and the black font white. Although we liked the way the writing is set our we still didn't think it was perfect. We then used a tool on paint to do the scratching effect to give us the worn, bark-like effect. The next stage involved us pasting this onto photoshop where we smudged the scratch parts so that it would blend a little in the white font so it would look professional. This took us a while as it was very hard to make it look effective without it looking like they are plain straight lines cutting up the letters.

This is our final idea. We related both our initial idea and our second idea ( in 'Font research-The Woods' Blog) to make this final one that we all liked. We have used the layout of the second idea and as we liked how on the initial idea, there were scratches going across some of the letters. We wanted to add that into it and make it more obvious and exaggerated. This meant it looks even more scary and link into the name of our film "The Woods" as it can come across like the scratches are branches or bits of mud covering parts of the letters. straight lines cutting up the letters. This font would be our final opening titles of our opening two minutes of 'The Woods'.