The decisions we had to make when it came to the typography were not that difficult as BSR graphics are not normally super imposed and they are just simple graphics. We had to estimate the size they should be by imagining where on screen it should go and how well it would show up on the movie. We also had to decide the font and the colour and when we did this we had to again imagine where in the scene it will go. At the end we had stuck to a plain white colour and a very simple font. We think this will be very visible to the audience and very simple to read. As it is simple to read it gives us the advantage to put the duration of the graphics at quite fast. This is typical of the BSR genre.
To research on how the graphics should be we looked at past student's work and we saw how they did it. We then looked at their grade to see if what they did was correct. From this we got inspiration of ideas on how to do our graphics and it let us know what not to do when placing the graphics. We then looked at proper BSR films and how they did their graphics. As these were proper films it gave us a proper insight on the graphics should be done and once we had watched multiple BSR graphics we had gathered the conventions of what the graphics should be like. From this we then conformed to the conventions and made simplistic graphics.
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| Different screen stills from the opening of Trainspotting |
Above is an example of the graphics used in a typical BSR known as Trainspotting even though these are super imposed graphics.
