EDITING - Creating and adding Titles

To create our titles we used a programme called 'Live Type'. This is because there is a much winder range of fonts and effects that you can choose from compared to Final Cut Pro's text options. The first step was generating the titles. We chose a specific font, size and effect to personalise the titles for our thriller opening. We used an effect called frigid which causes the writing to shake erratically as this relates to the film contents in terms of the mother being very distressed etc. We chose the specific 'report' font because it is not too simple and not too complicated. Also it can be read easily. The size is not very large but is large enough to be seen from afar. We purposely didn't make it too big because we want them in the corner of the screen so they don't get in the way of viewing. We also chose how long we wanted each of the titles to be shown for. We decided for them to last for nearly as long as the shot they appear on lasts for. The next step was importing them onto Final Cut Pro and dealing with the placement of them on the screen. We tried our best to space them out so it was not just title after title.