Making The Credits

Clare: 

As previously mentioned, we have now started our editing process and have therefore planned to create our narratives on LiveType in the same way I made our main title, in which the letters all enter individually, one after the other. In a similar process to creating the main title, I screen grabbed each individual letter from the 'dafont' website of our desired font 'Brain Flower.' I then reversed the colours so that the font was white and on a black background. After importing each individual letter onto LiveType, I adjusted the timings of each letter entrance (as displayed above in the screen grabs) so that they appeared one by one. I then continued this process for all of our narrative sentences, and it took a very long time as I had to keep editing each individual letter and make sure the timings correct. Despite this, I think it makes our trailer much more professional because of that uniform look it gives.

Ade: Although our film title 'Through My Eyes' emerges at the end with typing sound to reflect the aspect of bullying via a sort of social networking site 'cyber bullying, we decided to not incorporate this sound into the other titles such as 'a poignant journey'. This does not allow it the typing sound to clash with our background music and does not base the trailer solely on 'cyber-bullying' as there are other forms of bullying that are apparent within our film trailer. Also we thought the simplicity would make the trailer more emotional and doesn't confuse the audience. However, similar to the film title, the other titles fade in at a sustained pace.

Amanda:  The effect of our titles flowing in (excluding cast names over clips) represents the 'journey'. Just as our narrative tell 'a poignant journey' suggests the length Anna has to go to to get her old, happy, carefree life back, almost as if the credits are taking steps, just like she is. This is shown through her visiting a therapist. We wanted to keep the effect simple so the main focus would be on the emotion portrayed through the trailer. We knew, however, that if there was no effect on the credits, it would be boring and would not look professional. As Ade pointed out above, simplicity is the key. Simple effects to create lots of emotion is our goal, even though it's challenging.