Playing With Fonts

I'm getting closer and closer to completing editing every day, but with continuous thinking about my website and poser, I realized something all three of these components should have in common in order to all go together cohesively, and that is a font; so, I took a break from attempting to finish editing  my excerpt and started working on creating the graphic that will appear with the title in my documentary, since until now, I've just been avoiding it with a place. The title of my documentary, right now, is hesitantly We Proudly Represent Troupe 6510 or simply 6510. I always knew for certain I wanted to incorporate the classic "Broadway"  font in it somehow, but now I've also gotten the inspiration to have my title be sort of like something you would see on a theater marquee. Because my poster will already have a lot going on most likely with lights (I've made some decisions about this with the help of my peers, updates to come!) I think I will just use the standard Broadway font, but for headings on my website and the title in the documentary, incorporating marquee lights is something I really wanted to accomplish. Something along the lines of this:

Decor found on Pinterest

Cover art for season one of the musical TV show, Smash

Final product of a photo shop tutorial

This was inspired also by the picture of the Tampa Theater I included in an earlier post "Wrapping Up Filming and Poster Planning".

I tried creating a style like this using the tools on Filmora since they do have a nice variety of options for creating titles on their software, however, the best I could come up with was (roughly) something like this.

 

With The Broadway font and a glow sort of outline. I can of course play with the coloring of the text, the background, a potential background image, and further font dimensions, but either way, I just don't think I would be able to get the exact result I want, so I looked into searching up marquee style fonts that I could copy or download but I wasn't very successful in this so I looked toward making my own. I'm no artist or graphic design wiz so I knew this would also pose a challenge, but thankfully, my brother is. I found a few tutorials online and realized you can make marquee light graphics not too difficulty on Photo Shop, which my brother also has access too so I plan on asking him and seeing if he could possibly make me a graphic for my documentary. If i choose the longer title, I'm not sure I want the whole thing in lights because I think it would look too cluttered, but for either title, I definitely want the 6510 in lights. Here are a few of the tutorials that I'm sending to my brother that would be helpful to him in creating this image: Realistic 3D Casino Style Bulb Tutorial, Vintage Light Bulb Sign Tutorial, SMASH Theater Text Effect Video. 

Although I didn't make much progress with the aesthetic of my title from the point I was when I started this post, at least I know have a more solid set idea in mind and I'm excited to see potential results. In the off chance that my brother isn't willing to help, I know my rough draft of the title is not terrible, and like I said, I can most definitely continue working with it.