Monday, October 14, 2013

Title: Creating The Title

When creating our title, we knew that we wanted it to be quite simple but at the same time, relate to the genre we have chosen for our trailer. We researched different film titles on youtube that were Horror films and we saw that most of them were quite simple and either bold or unbold. We liked the appearance of this and thought for creating our title, less is more. However, we al
so wanted it to be animated because we thought it would look too boring otherwise and we also thought that there were many different things we could do to it rather than just keeping it as a still image. For the creation of our title, we used Motion and Final Cut Pro. Originally we were only going to use Motion, but we found that the animations for titles were more effective and interesting on Final Cut Pro, so we decdied to use that as well.




Firstly, we opened a new project on Motion and chose which font we wanted for our title. We chose the font 'Georgia' because we liked the look of Serif fonts as it looks very old-fashioned and quite creepy. You would also typically find a font like this in horror films.


Then, we decided to make the background black and the font white because we wanted it to stand out more and sort of 'glow' to make it look more creepy and obvious.

Then, we felt that our text could be slightly more interesting so we experimented with Photoshop and decided to use the 'smudge tool' to blur and warp the letters slightly to make it look more interesting and 'ghost like'.



After using this tool, our final title came out like this:



Then, we added different effects to our title. We added 'Projector' to it because it makes it look 'old' and more creepy. It's also quite similar to our production logo and so we wanted both of these to relate. 


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