Monday, 26 March 2012

Creating New Film Titles

As I have mentioned in a previous post, we needed to create new and better titles for our film. The ones on our rough cut, due to their nature, took far too long to turn into something readable and took up too much time. They also didn't really introduce the audience to what our film was actually about, and so as a group we have decided to change them.

As opposed to creating something over the top and fancy, we have decided to keep them simple and even create them in Final Cut. Below is a picture of one of the frames of our titles.


This was created in Final Cut. Firstly, I used Google Images in order to find some images which I felt would be suitable for our titles and would be appropriate for representing our film and what it's about. I tried to find images which just had a black outline so that I could use PhotoShop to fill the inside in using the fill bucket, and make them white. I then created a slug in Final Cut, added text to it, chose the font I felt most appropriate and then using the superimpose option, I dragged the images I had found and edited onto the slugs and positioned them where I thought was right using the wireframe.

Although our titles are only black and white, and are very basic and simple, I feel that they are affective for these reasons, as they do not complicate anything. I also think, that with the right music underneath them (ie. chanting/choir singing), they will give the audience an idea about our film's themes before any of our footage has even begun.