typography

typography

Typography is very important when it comes to title sequences. the typography is mainly used to give away the genre of the film, for example if the words are distorted then the genre is likely to be thriller as it is like a puzzle. In some cases the typography can tell you what the film is, for example Harry Potter's type of writing is very popular and is known world wide. the typography also involves the order in which the world are presented. the order of the credits are normally production company, film title, actors names, Producer, writer and director, with other less important role imbertween. the colour of the typography can also tell us a lot about the film, for example if the colour was red i would think the film would be a horror or romance, along with the way it looks you can tell either it is horror or romance.  overall typography is very important to the title sequence.

the typography of Catch me if you can is very simple in a way as there is no special font to it. however the lines used that are connected to the letters makes the clip more flowing and to show they are all connected with each other. the lines look they are almost following the person, which links to the film as he does have somebody following him.

the lines that are connected to the letters are also are used to create objects. for example in the title sequence the lines are used to create ladders, book shelfs and a rope.

The order in which the actors are presented shows leonardo di caprio first mainly because he is the main character and possible because he is the star of the movie. Tom hanks is the other big star in this film.