Inspiration

When I watched ‘Dark Shadows’ I thought the opening was particular good. It portray the setting of the film and the time in which it was in really well.

Firstly the date appeared:

We had decided to do this on one of our shots, but using the font Gabriola which is the same as out title's font as we thought it will portray our films time period.

Here’s the example of our date in our chosen font:

Another element of ‘Dark Shadows’ opening I really liked that portrayed the time period was the choice of song. ‘Nights in white satin’ by The Moody Blues was a well-known song in the 70’s in which ‘Dark Shadows’ is set in. We got the idea to have a Beatles song due to them being popular in the 60’s

This is the opening titles of ‘Dark Shadows’: