Film Title Research

As pairs we looked at the above titles which are all from different thrillers. We looked at the common conventions of the titles and also some of the more unusual features. For example, many of the titles contain dark backgrounds and/or red font which is used as the darkness is a common fear, The red is often used in the titles as it connotes danger and violence to the audience. Also most of the fonts are in a sans serif font as this shows that the films are quite harsh to watch as opposed to a genre such as teen angst where the titles are often pink and in a serif font. The names of the films are usually quite short and memorable such as "The Ring", "Se7en" and "Panic Room", however if the title is long then it is structured so that the words are on top of one another making it seem shorter and take up less room on the screen/poster.