Skills Audit: Creation of the titles

After finishing the editing and music of the title sequence, titles needed to be added. We experimented with different fonts and text effects to try and get the correct font that would correspond with the ominous mood that we had created alread with the editing and music. We had to fit the titles as well as we had done fitting together the editing and music.

Firstly we thought about going for a simple block text with a weird ghostly effect. Nahuel made these titles,

These titles were good but I felt that they could be developed more to make them fit with the title sequence more. I decided to make some titles that I thought would fit better with our sequence to have an option of another set of titles.

When I was making my version of the titles I went through a lot of fonts and tried to look for fonts that were different and not too simple and that would add to the ominous mood of our title sequence. I found a font that was perfect for the job which was called "cracked" it had a grungey feel and I thought it would fit perfect.

After I chose the font I placed our edited title sequence in the background of livetype. I did this by exporting the movie for livetype in final cut pro.

With the movie in the background I could find the best place to put the titles on the screen. I placed the titles where I felt they looked best and where they were readable.

As a style of the titles I decided to make the first bit of titles smaller than the actual name or if it was a main actor/actress their first name would be smaller than their surname. for example: Music by Dave Webb. Also another style that I tried to maintain through out the whole sequence was changing the colour of the text between different shots from black to white or from white to black.

At first I put effects on the titles that made the writing move in a ghostly way but I felt that ruined the title sequence and made it look cheesy and cliche, I wanted to make it as professional as I could as well as making it fit with the clips. Because I had made the titles with the movie in the background it was easy to just export and place them on the time timeline as a clip on its own in Final cut pro.

At the end we decided to use my titles instead of the first ones originally made by Nauhel. We felt that they fitted the purpopse better than the other ones.