Editing our Thriller Title Sequence - Adding Titles

We were able to add titles with ease in our editing program. The font that we have decided on is Myriad Pro - Bold Condensed:

This font resembles the font used on the front blinds of a London bus; in addition it is all in capitals. This stands out and is memorable. I believe the font of the titles can inform/hint to the audience what genre of film it is and what the rest of the film is going to be like. The font is also fairly typical of fonts used in many thriller films as it is rather 'masculine' and 'tough'.

I decided to have the titles fade in and out while on screen, they slowly track across the screen. It is rather subtle. I hoped this gave the impression of a journey (back to past events) which is what the film is about as well as a sense of the movement of a bus on its journey. Originally, on the second shot (tracking shot of the buses) we were going to have the titles in perfect time with the buses so it appeared as if the titles were 'stuck onto' the front of each bus. This was inspired by the opening titles of the film "Speed". Unfortunately, I thought it did not go with the overall atmosphere so instead we had consistency in our titles as they are all similar in the fact that they fade in and out and track smoothly and slowly.

 However, the shot where the antagonist steps up onto the bus, we decided to not fade in the title, instead we made it suddenly appear in time with the footstep:

These are some screenshots of me adding, editing a title to be put into the opening sequence on the timeline. As you can see, the editing of any title is carried out in a separate window which is opened by double clicking the title:

The title to show our film name: "THE DEPOT" took the most amount of time to achieve. A fade to black transition (the black background) had to be timed perfectly with the bus movement. We used the select tool, the title writing tool, the rotate tool and the resize tool to edit the title once we had created it on the black/blank background. The speed that the words came into the frame had to be timed perfectly as well. As you can see from the following screenshot the tracking was set at 30; the font size and aspect were also considered to create the effect that we desired for this particular title: