We are now at the stage were we are adding titles to our opening Caretaker. To make sure that our film opening looked like a film opening, not a film trailer, we wanted to make sure we put the titles in the right places and make them look good. We looked back into our previous research from 'Art of the Titles', where we watched back and looked back at our timeline to see where the titles came in on the opening and what they said. The opening that i looked at was 'Se7en'.
On Final Cut Express, we added our titles onto our filming opening and here is how we did it:
Step 1: Firstly we had to go to the little text menu with the 'A' symbol in it. It then gave us different options and we selected 'text' and then 'text' again. We are now ready to make a new title.
Step 2: Secondly, we had different options for us to choose from to make our text. For example, the font size, style, colour, rotation etc. For this titles we typed in the text box, 'Music by Ted Gotch'.
Step 3: We have now selected the font style to be 'Century' and the font size 36 with just a white font on a black background.
Step 4: Once we have made the title, we now have to decide were it will be placed within this frame. We have chosen to put it at the bottom right hand corner. This is because i think it is not too 'in your face' if it was right in the middle of the frame. We can move the text by clicking on the 'video' tap and then the drop down menu to where we would like the text.
Step 5: The default setting for Final Cut titles is to run for 10 seconds. We felt that this was too long and decided to change the viewing time to 3 seconds instead of 10. To do this, at the top right hand corner of the viewing window where the titles is, there is a time section where we are able to type in how long we want the title to be shown.
Our titles is now complete, all we have to do now is drag the title into the timeline at the bottom of Final Cut express and the title will automatically insert.
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