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Being devil's advocate here for a moment... Surely ensuring that the text shown on screen is easily readable for the audience (especially so for exposition prop
by Jaruzel 9y ago
Being devil's advocate here for a moment... Surely ensuring that the text shown on screen is easily readable for the audience (especially so for exposition props such as newspapers), outweighs the need to be temporally correct with the typeface?
- vacri 9y agoIf you want to get that level of pedantic with films as the article does, then few will survive. 'Suspension of disbelief' is a thing for a reason; a movie maker is after immersion, not strict accuracy. It only needs to be historically accurate if they're claiming to be some sort of documentary.
- mortenjorck 9y agoSuspension of disbelief is always a continuum. A drama set in a hospital might have some very reasonable efforts at realism, enough to seem believable to an informed layperson, while a particular procedural oversight might completely ruin the immersion for a medical doctor in the audience. As a designer, I might see Futura used in a sign in a period piece set two decades before Paul Renner designed the font, but not really care because the grotesks and early geometrics that preceded Futura bear a lot of similarities. But if I see Futura in a period piece set two centuries before the font was in use, that completely destroys the believability of the film's production design.