Captions typically appear as subtitles for the hearing impaired or for foreign language speakers (foreign from the language of the film, that is). These fonts tend to be simple, but can be either serifed and sans serifed fonts (more on that below). This type of text appears on the lower third of the screen, and it usually conveys location information, particularly when jumping between time periods and geographic locations. In the film industry, title sequences are sometimes created by a specialized graphic designer who crafts a font designed for a specific motion picture. They frame the content and credit the people who brought it to life. Title sequences appear at the beginning and end of a film or video. Text can appear in many elements of a video, including: Why do Wes Anderson films look like Wes Anderson films? The director is very particular about production design, down to the specific fonts used across the film-from title cards to the text in prop books.Ĭhoosing a font may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you plan a video editing project, but text fonts play an important role in your overall production design. Choosing the right fonts for your video presentation
