Planning for our Title style...

In order to have a successful and realistic title style, I analysed other horror titles and gathered forms and conventions to interpret it into my own work.

Nightmare On Elms Street.

This title looks like it has been written in blood, instantly revealing th

e genre and the word ‘nightmare’ connotes a sense of disast

er has struck on the street. The moon in the background implies that the killings take place at night referring to ‘nightmare on elmstreet’. The connotations of a nightmare are horror, unpleasant and scary, this adds to the atmosphere of the title as is contributes to the genre.

Zombie Land.

The title to this slasher horror is designed with all capital letters to make the text bigger an

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r. The title is slanted to give an impression that it is across the world for example, zombies have taken over. The writing it also in a orange font that looks like fire this could represent death associating with the genre.

Black Christmas.

This title contradicts christmas as christmas is traditionally a jolly, merry time, and here black it put infront giving christmas a negative perspective. The house in the background of t

he picture could possible be the location of the film and where the main events in the film take place. The font itself are two different types, ‘black’ looks like it has been written on a steamed window whereas ‘christmas’ looks like its shattered also giving a bad vibe to christmas, like things have fallen apart.

The red colour in the background could represent blood or danger which also relates to the slasher horror genre.

Scream 2.

This is another title which is white font on black background giving the mysterious effect. The word ‘scream’ relates to fear and danger also giving the genre away to the audience immediately. The ‘2’ is red, which could suggest film two is even bloodier and scarier than the previous one. On the ‘M’ in scream the middle bit is sharper than the other ones this could suggest that the weapon used is long and sharp. Screaming is not a happy or pleasant- gesture therefore shows the genre through the name instantly.