shows to utilize this kind of visual effect. First I had a look at the film Zombieland, a 2009 horror comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay written by Rhett Reese and Paul. This film has extensive use of these texts that interact sometimes interact with the action on screen. The texts are sometimes aligned with the background to appear that they are in the environment as their inclusion is not a jarring experience for the audience. There are other times where the texts themselves can be interacted with as there are scenes where a character would run through them and break them or have blood splatter on them. I would not go as far as make the text that interactive but I do want to make it feel as a intangible object that can be viewed from different perspectives.

The second text that I had a look at was the animated TV show Adventure Time created by Pendleton Ward. The particular episode I watched was the episode titled “A Glitch is a Glitch” which was written, story boarded, and directed by Irish filmmaker David O’Reilly. The reason for watching this episode was a scene where the main characters where talking to a character that didn’t speak English so there were subtitles. What made this screen unique was that the characters actually looked down at the text and cut to their perspective and the text was backwards. Not only did it make the scene very humorous as it took advantage of perspective it gave me some good ideas that might play well in our concept for the film.

Next on the list was the 2008 sci-fi show Fringe created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. This show had extensive use of 3D text on screen that tells the audience the location that the characters are in. The way this show differed from the rest was that as the camera tracked the characters the perspective of the text also changed, giving the impression that it is planted at the exact spot. This is one method to go with having text not just on screen but actually appear to be present the same space as the characters. It would be interesting to try this technique for myself as it would help develop the skill required to make the test footage for the proposed film.