Making My Trailer - Title Screen

To give my film an identity and ensure that it stayed memorable to the viewer, I decided to frequently show a title screen of the name of my film. I chose to do it frequently throughout the trailer, as this was what I had found from my competitor trailer research, therefore, by doing this I am following the convention of these trailers.

I chose my film editing software to create this feature, as it came with a tool that would make this easier for me to do.

 On the edit screen of Adobe Premier there is access to a few title screens that I used as a base to the creation of my title freezframe. I selected the one titled fun_credits, as I thought it was the plainest one that I was able to use and edit to suit my genre.

Once I selected my screen, it goes into editing mode. This allows you to change the text and to add effects onto specific parts of the text if you want them. I chose to remove all the design that was already included - the purple dots and excess text that I no longer needed. 

As you can see I have removed all the excess and changed the text to the name of my film. Using the editing panel on the right hand side of the screen I was able to change the font, size and style of my text. This was helpful as it ensured that I was able to make sure that my product was the same in my trailer and throughout all my other ancillary products.

Using the text animation panel, I was able to select from various different modes which would change the way that my title moved across the screen. There were many modes to choose from, for example, pan and zoom, fades, slide and various other special effects that would change the way in which the title entered and exited from the screen. On my title screen I chose to use the focus in mode, this means that my title starts really zoomed in and out of focus, and gradually zooms out so that we can see the whole word in focus.

I added a transition effect to my title screen as I thought that the transition between it and other shots was too harsh. I decided to use a fade to white as most of my shots have quite high key lighting and using a dark fade would be too harsh of a transition, if the mood and shot did not call for it.