Research: Opening credits

 I have began to research fonts for the opening credits of my movie because you can not make a good opening to a movie without including opening credits and those in themselves have to be good. Not only do the fonts have to be good but also the imaging in the background and the music playing. So I have watched some opening credits of movie and taken some of their ideas and am going to try and incorporate them into my own movie.

I have watched the opening to the movie Reservoir Dogs (1992) on the website Art of the title and am very captured by the way they introduce the actors. As they walk in slow motion the camera shows each of their faces and introduces their names to show who is starring in the movie, I think this is very clever because when doing opening credits, since we only have such a short time period to film we can add some of our introductions while the credits are playing just as they did in Reservoir Dogs. But I think in our movie our four main actors will be sitting and talking at a diner as a song plays in the background. 

Along with opening credits people will also see the font and I want to discuss my research on what fonts me and my group are considering to use. So I went on to adobe fonts to look at fonts that I thought matched my movie and I found two that are very interesting and I think match the mafia vibe. 

This is LTR Federal and I think it has a very old vibe and it will be perfect for a mafia movie, my only problem with it is that it can kind of give of the mood for a happier movie since the colors are light and bright and I do not want our movie to give the illusion.

My other option is going to be AM Sirte which I like a lot but it is also very narrow but I think we will be able to widen it a bit. But in my opinion it looks like a font that might be used in a James Bond movie but we have a mafia movie but we will see what my group members think. 

Lastly, going with opening credits is going to be audio and a couple songs that I think would be a good fit is "Cavalerie" from the movie Mafia but I do think that it is a bit old for our movie. God's Plan by Drake is also a very good song choice because our movie follows a mafia kingpin and how two of his under dwellings try to betray him so it could show how Drake says bad things are being wished on him.