Practical Task - Editing Final Typography

Practical Task - Editing Final Typography

I decided to make the final typography for the final scene of our film opening. I knew that it needed to include a strong fire element and the title had to be bold and stand out against the fire background otherwise it may of looked washed out. I firstly had to find an appropriate gif off of google images that I would use as the background when making the typography for our film opening. It had to be a gif because I wanted the fire to move behind the text to make it more exciting. The one I decided to use in the end was slightly blurred and looked old fashioned. Looking back now, I realise that the choice of fire may not of been as appropriate as it could of been and something more modern would have been more acceptable.

 

After saving and inserting the image into Photoshop I separated the clip into 30 different frames as this would allow me to make the title fade in and out if I desired. I added the title 'INCINERATE' into all 30 frames using a font that was also quite old fashioned because I felt I needed to follow the theme that I had already decided when I chose the particular fire picture that I did. The font and size made it look very bold which was important as I wouldn't of wanted it to get lost within the fire.

 

The typography wasn't very exciting at this point so I decided to fade in the text at the beginning of the sequence. To do this I removed the title off of the first 5 layers so when it was played through the title didn't appear for the first couple of seconds. Then for the following 10 layers I put the opacity levels down to 0 and increased it by 10% for each next layer which created the effect that the title was fading in. This made the title in general more professional and therefore better to watch as it looked like more time and effort had been put into making it.

 

Finally, after watching this a few times I decided that the title needed to be improved so I went on the features and adjusted the contrast, text width and the font colour. All of these changed the title in a moderate way but I noticed the small differences. Looking back now I realise I could of attempted to make the title clearer in general because it was slightly blurry against the fire background.

Evaluation
After I made the title we decided that it didn't fit well with our genre because the fire was not bold enough and we wanted it to be more modern so it had a more professional look. Also it only lasted around 5-7 seconds and after I inserted it into the film opening and watched it through the title appeared and then disappeared too quickly and there wasn't enough time to read it or understand the meaning of the fire. Instead of going back and re-editing it to make it longer, we decided to make a new title page for the end of the film opening that would fit better to the common conventions in Slasher horror films. On the other hand, I really liked the fact that the background fire moved as it made the title look more dramatic and was also much more effective. We therefore decided as a group to incorporate this idea when making our new title.