Editing: The Font & Other Meanings

As noted in a much earlier blog post, font is an extremely important factor in filmmaking (You know, I find myself saying that about a LOT of steps in the filmmaking process... maybe everything in film is equally important *mind blown*) Anyways, thriller films typically have slasher type-fonts or other aggressive/spooky visual aspects. Along with that, they are commonly found written in red ink, as it is a color directly associated with fear

In our title sequence, we challenged typical thriller and horror conventions in multiple ways but one way is specifically the font. Our choice of font during editing does not directly follow along in the footsteps of other thriller movies, because it doesn't exactly feel scary upon first glance. It does, however, match perfectly with the film because it feels abnormal (which, is a big factor of our brand. Abnormality is cool, kids.) Instead of scarier fonts such as Nightmare 5 that was used in the movie "IT", we used and

added the font VCR OSD Mono. (Right ⇢)

We used VCR OSD Mono when giving our credits throughout the title sequence, but when the title card is flashed at the end, we used a separate font, called Dvorak. Dvorak, along with VCR, both feel less threatening and intimidating when looking at them head on. But when being incorporated in our film, they make the audience feel a mythical sense of the unknown... exactly what Lucid Elucidations promotes. (Left ⇠)

The following show examples of how we used the VCR font for our credits, and the Dvorak font for our title card

Another huge way in which we challenged thriller conventions is by having an African American male as the lead character, and by having a mysterious female figure as the attacker and/or aggressor. Usually, in the cinematic universe as a whole, males are portrayed as the stronger beings, and females are the targets for harm and weakness. Yet in our film, these roles have been completely switched. Now, the female is the attacker, and the male a victim. Along with that, Robert is an African American, who are even rarer beings to find as lead roles but, more specifically, are rare to find as leads in thriller films. By using him as our lead role we have further challenged typical thriller genre conventions.