Creating the Titles and Opening Credits

To create the titles we already knew from storyboarding that we wanted the word "Identity" to split into two and horizontally wipe out in sync with the train doors. We wanted a simple, but not too basic, bold and capitalised font. We made it white with black border shadow so that it would stand out against the black and white filter overlay of the clip. We created the titles and the wipe to left and right pathways through Adobe Premiere Pro as the screenshots below show:

Using the titles sub window to create the sideways pathway of each individual text 'IDEN' and 'TITY'. We had to make sure both texts were centrally aligned with eachother as well as being in line with the split of the train doors. We then changed the speed of the transition/pathway in sync with the speed of the opening doors. 

This is where we chose from a range of fonts. As aforementioned, we wanted it to be simple, clear and bold and to appeal to both male and female audiences. 

Here is the clip we produced:

To create the opening credits we used Final Cut Pro and their selection of preset text effects. The screen shots below show the different steps used. We wanted the font to be bold, readable and have an interesting and professional entrance without obstructing the clip too much or distracting the audience from the film in the background. Where we could, we tried our best to position the opening credits at times during camera movement (e.g. the panning scene where Ryan and Alex's names appear) or where Poppy walks past the words. This creates a more dynamic look where it appears the video is interacting with the credits through the use of the transition. It is clever, slick and common convention I really like to see in a film.

Below is a photo and video collage I made using the iPad app VideoCollage. 

• Top left image: shows the timeline and where we added each title entrance.
• Middle left: shows FCP and Titles window
• Bottom left: video to show the actual credits and what they look like. N.B: the video is in colour because we have done the credits before colour correction.
• Top right: using the Transform tool on FCP to align and move titles to where we want them to appear within the frame.
• Bottom right: close up of titles presets available to us, we chose 'continuous' as we felt this looked simple yet slick and went well with our backing soundtrack.

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