Designing the titles

Designing my title was a longer process than I thought it would be, but interesting at the same time because I learnt a few new things. I wasn't quite sure about having my title just over a black screen, so I considered having it over the top of the final moving image of my trailer and then maybe to move on to a black screen. I got this idea from one of my influences: "Precious". Here is a picture of what this trailer does:


I really liked this idea because I think that it's different and quite nice to have the title over a moving image of the trailer. But whilst editing, I discovered that I couldn't do this on iMovie. So I used another program called LiveType. I had to import the scene that I wanted the title over from iMovie and open it in LiveType, then in there it had lots of different options for titles, so after spending a few lessons playing around with the program and the hundreds of different titles that it had, I finally chose one for my teaser trailer. The font is called Kaileen, its a font that is similar to a childs handwriting, which I thought matched perfectly with my teaser trailer. Here is a picture of the editing process in LiveType:


So once I had finished my title, I saved and imported it in to iMovie and I am pleased to say its gone well! And to carry on from this I am going to have a black screen with: "SUMMER 2011" on it, in the same font and the same colour as the title: "Home". I decided to keep the font and colour because I think that it has given it a nice flow from the final shot of my teaser trailer to when it will be released. I looked at some ideas from various different genre trailers to see how they presented their release date, such as "I Love You, Beth Cooper" and "The Lovely Bones". "I Love You, Beth Cooper" had "SUMMER" at the end of their trailer and "The Lovely Bones" had "DECEMBER". So because it is a teaser trailer I haven't given it a specific date, most teaser trailers are quite open and usually say something similar to the examples that I have looked at. This is usually because the film isn't going to be released for a while yet so they haven't set a date, it's just to raise awareness of the film. And then when the main trailer is released they usually give the audience the exact date. Here are the trailers for "I Love You, Beth Cooper" and "The Lovely Bones", although they are a different genre to mine, I was focusing mainly on how they showed their titles: