Typography Practice

As George is are main editor he thought as a group it would be best to practice typography before we had even shot the film as we could develop an understanding and skill with it. The reason in which we decided this is because George wants to be able to achieve what ever affect we desire to have as part of our film, without wasting alternative time trying to learn how to edit it.

Within the final title screen, George felt that for a first attempt it was not as bad as he thought it would be because it was in time with the non-diegetic soundtrack in the background as it came in and out without any jump cuts or bad editing. However we thought that we could have used/tried out a variety of texts to see if certain words stood out and whether not it was effective.

To make these clips, George was going to use after effects however it began to crash so he took he longer route of using the final cuts and built them in motion software.

The first thing in which George had to do to make this effective was to cut out his brother Joe, which he was supposed to use a mask for in after effects however due to it crashing he decided to adjust it in photoshop using a freeze frame from the video.

He then had to add text. He spent around 40 minutes looking through texts as he wanted to choose one that would look right and fitted into the right theme of the genre of film that he had made. Before he chose the text that he initially used he tried western fonts as he thought that the title screen could be similar to 'The good, the bad and the ugly' due to the use of red. However he went down another route and looked into more modern texts.

To add some depth into the title sequence, George used a grunge background to have a freeze frame on. The next thing in which he added to it to create effect was the smoke, in which he got the idea from an earlier film poster which he made for this film. The text then had to be made so that they would interact with each other, which took up a lot of time due to George having to keep using key frames.

Credit to George Turner