After Effects

Learning about Adobe After Effects in one of our lessons, allowed me to have a better understanding of how to use the After effects programme and how to create effective looking titles that link with our genere of film.

In the lesson we were given a simple tutoriaol on how to create a title for our film trailers using basic tools in After Effects . I used Cam studio to record the fil title I had created and show the effects I had used.

This is a screen shot of the name of our film which will be placed towards the end of the trailer. 

 

This was my practice/draft title in after effects, I then went onto create another After Effects title. I wanted to put an image behind the title 'Animus',  and then for the words to zoom in and only show part of the image.

 

 

I chose to use a piece of footage that was just the main characters eyes, but showing no emotion and looking very distant. I then placed this behind the title 'ANIMUS'. I use various key frames to position the title over the eyes and then zoom and enlarge the scale of the font so that it only showed on eye. 

Filming: Locations

I filmed in various location and tired to film as much as possible so that when it came to editing I was able to chose from a wide variety of shots and ensure that if there was a slight problem with one shot that I would have filmed multiple shots of the same clip.

Each time I went out filming I decided to take a picture of where I had filmed to keep a record of each place, I then created a slide show to present these still images of the places I had filmed my trailer.

Film titles and font styles

As I begin to move on with my film trailer, I need to consider my film titles and font styles. I looked at a website called Art of the title, which is a leading online publication on the creative processes behind the art of title sequence design. It spans out to film, television, conference, and videogame industries.

On Art of the title I looked for clips that incorporated films belonged to the psychological thriller genre. Such as this clip made by William Somerset looking at the film trailer for Seven.

This isn’t going to have a happy ending. —William Somerset 

Also when looking at film posters I created a Prezi to anaylsesome Psychological thriller film posters such as 'Anna' and 'Seven'. When analysing these films posters i saw the oputunity to look into detail at the type, size and style of fonts used on the film posters, I found this o be a great help in assiting my choices inchosing font style and size for my owm film poster and possibly my film magazine.



After anaylising the fonts of mulitple film posters, I used dafont.com to find a range of fonts that I could possibly use when creating my film poster. 

For the image on my fiml poster I am using a black book, the writing within the book has to be hand written but very loose, singature like. I used dafont.com to find fonts like this style, I found three fonts I liked and was able to type the words 'The ending is always the best' into dafont.com and see what it would look like in the font styles I liked.

Since I had to write up the words into the book I printed off the image above and traced over the font styles to get an idea and practice writing in that style.