Editing - Titles

We decided on production company names simply by looking round the media classroom and picking words from the wall displays. We decided to used a plain background and bold writing as this is commonly done in action films. to make the writing easy to read i made it white on a black background, this was also done because the white represents purity and cleanliness like the hero character whereas the black connotes a darker, meaner side to him; the villain personality.

I found out how to add titles, it's simple, you go in the source window on adobe premiere pro then at the bottom click new item and select title. For the 'LexisFilms Presents' title i made the writing black and gave it a white highlight around the edges. I then had the idea to make the text change colour to being white with white highlights, making the writing appear fully white, I layered one of these titles over the other in the sequence and made the top one; with the black writing, slowly fade out showing the fully white one making it look as though the writing simply changes colour. This worked as the titles were placed in the exact same place on the screen. To fade from one to the other i had to add key frame tabs on to the timeline and drag one down so that it made a diagonal line with the opacity of one of the titles which makes it fade out

The title for Expectation productions was done in the same way, however instead of making the title change colour, it simply faded in from black then  stayed in ad the first scene faded in. It then faded out leaving just the scenes with no titles.

For the other titles in the opening I had to pay attention to the background colour so that all the writing was readable, I did this by using dark titles over the light scenes and vise versa. To show off a little bit I made one of the titles bridge from a dark scene to a light scene and in the same way as the first title made it change colour to adjust to the change in background colour.


I wrote 'Starring Aaron Weir' and 'Imogen Renshaw' but i figured films usually have more than 2 famous actors/actresses in them so we decided i should put in some random names so I decided to add in random names, I added 'Rodney Mullen' and he is my favourite skateboarder as he invented almost every trick skateboarders know today I also add 'Rob Dyrdek' as he too is a very inspirational person for me as he is a pro skater and entrepreneur, he was on my mind as I was watching a programme with him in before school that day.

For the final title, the film title 'Mind Over Matter' I simply made it fade in then fade back out however I took particular care when doing this so that it didn't stay up for too long, just long enough for everyone to read it. It had to fade in and out gradually to make it appear as a passing thought which is funny as we almost forgot to put the film title in, we had a long time where it was just black and you could hear the ticking noise and this was pretty effective but Miss Jarman pointed out it might be an idea to put the title of the film in there.