Typography

Using the website 'www.dafont.com' we chose 5 different types of typography for our thriller title. Each typography is distorted which suits our theme of a psychological thriller. The story of our thriller is also quite sinister and mysterious and these typographies suit this idea because they all pose questions to why they are distorted and how their look relates to the title and story of our thriller. For example:

1. Typography one has a regular, 'Arial' style font which we thought could represent parts of the normal teenage girls personality however it also has lines which distort the title and this could represent the girls alter-ego tearing it's way out of her. 
2. Typography two has a similar effect to number one apart from the title looks as though it has been smudged or effected by something which would distort it which relates to the teenage girls mind.
3. Typography three has letters which seem regular apart from they are not printed in a straight line and the letters also have sharp little flicks coming off of the points. We liked this font because the sharp flicks made it look sinister and deadly which are styles we hope our thriller opening will accomplish.
4. Typography four is distorted using a second white shadow behind each letter. This relates to our thriller because we are using magazines which we will rip up and use as props and the white shadow looks a lot like ripped paper in the shape of the letters. We liked this typography because it could relate to the way that the alter-ego is always lurking behind the girls normal personality.
5. Typography five has a similar effect to 4 apart from instead of a paper effect, it has a shadow of lines behind it. This gives a similar idea of the alter-ego always lurking inside of the girl. 

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We created a poll so that members of the public and our peers could text in the number of the typography which they preferred; this would also allow us to gain the needed opinion of our target audience:

This poll revealed the most popular typography to be number four. We think that this typography is a good choice as it reflects the story line of out thriller opening titles. In our thriller opening, we are planning for the teenage girl to be reading a magazine when she hears strange sounds coming from her bedroom and when she goes upstairs to investigate the sounds, she finds her sinister alter-ego in her room surrounded by ripped up magazines. The typography suits this because the white shadow behind it looks as though it is ripped paper which relates to our idea of ripped up magazines. This correlation works very well and since the magazines are a main feature in our thriller opening, the typography is perfect. The title also relates well to the thriller genre as it has typical 'type-writer' font which is used for crime or mystery thrillers and the ripped paper also links to a disorderly mind which works well with the psychological thriller genre of our opening titles.