Typography

This poster for Tim Burton's, "Corpse Bride" uses a very quirky and somewhat creepy type. The slogan doesn't present anything special, but the movie title is quite interesting. Firstly, it establishes the nature of the movie as the type is very "Burton-esque". His movies tend to have that quirky, gothic feel to it and this type portrays that. Secondly, if you look at the poster closely, you can see little curled vines on the borders. These vines play nicely with the type as they both mimic each other. The curls of the vines look similar to the curls and rough edges of the title. Overall, they type is quite effective in enhancing the poster's message; and although the slogan type is a bit bland, it actually works well with the rest of poster as it creates contrast to the dark, gothic feel of the other images.






The type on this bottle of Mountain dew is kinda cool...The acutal font is nothing special but the effects are what make it interesting. They made it so that the words are almost flowing with the movements in the background, creating the illusion of dynamic motion...again, it's kinda cool, but nothing special. It's relatively effective as Mountain Dew is an energy drink, and this type kinda of gives emphasizes this but...overall, it's a bit bland...So...it's good, but not great. And effective, but not amazingly effective.



It's a pretty standard horror movie font; very gritty and scratchy. It's interesting to note that there are two different fonts. The lettering in white is a really sharp and distorted font while the title is a blocky, gritty font. What I really like about the title font, is that it sort of mimics the woman's flow of hair. The lettering is broken up by lines and scratches, and I personally think that it adds an element of repetition. It can also be mirroring the texture of the monster's head, as it is also quite broken up and cracked. I think it's pretty effective...but I mean, it's not really anything new; As I said before, it's a pretty standard horror movie font. It gets the job done. From the font, one can get that this movie might be unnerving and edgy.







Image Sources:

Corpse Bride Poster - Poster from my house

Mountain Dew Bottle - Bottle from my refrigerator

FEAST Movie Poster - (It won't let me post the link) from best-horror-movies.com under images and Feast movie poster.