In this blog, I will explain my process of how I created my rough draft for my title card. The reason I call it a rough draft is that it is open for revisions at any time from now till the due date. This blog was originally supposed to be about my actors and the set location, but because I still haven't found people who are willing to act, I decided to jump ahead on my schedule so I'm not set too far back.
So first, I had to go on YouTube and figure out how to do a title. I went to a variety of different channels, trying to find a video that will really benifit me. The video linked below is was actually got me to create my title sequence.
Font
Before getting into animating the title and all of that, I had to find a font for my title. I already knew I didn't want a very thick or decadent font for the title, but rather something simplistic that can still send creepy vibes to the audience. The resononing being becasue I feel like titles that are very bold and big go with very supernatural (monsters, ghost) kinds of productions like "Goosebumps".
To get my fonts, I just went to Adobe Fonts and typed in horror. It took me a while to really decide on which one to do, but after some trial and error, I found the perfect one.
The font Democratica OT automatically gives my horror/ creepy vibes. My only setback with this font is that it doesn't necessarily go with the "theme" of the film itself. The font reminds me of a religious or spiritually focused horror movie, such as "The Nun", while my film is more realistic fiction.
Nonetheless, it oddly felt like a perfect fit with the aura my film was going to give off, and at the end of the day, when I'm finished filming, and the font doesn't look good with my finished product, I can easily change it.
Color and Masking
So after getting the font, I wanted to start with creating the actual title before the producer company, because I knew that the title would be the hardest part.
The YouTube video pretty much took me through the process of aligning the title to the screen so it's centered, it taught me how to add color to the text and make it gradient. When I chose the coloring of my title, I wanted to highlight the word blood in the title by making it red and the rest a neutral color. Since the background of the scene was black, I decided to make all the other words white. I made the red coloring have a tiny bit of gradience, going from a darkish red to a brighter one vertically. Though the audience may not notice it, it does make a big difference compared to just a plain red text. It makes it look a bit realistic, as if the word was actually typed out in blood.
This is how my title would come in the frame . As you can see it isn't all displayed at once, but it gradually
appears.
However, when it came to editing, I wanted a very simplistic title, and the title that the person on the video was making was very big and bold. This meant that his process was a bit more complicated than mine was. But his showing me things like masking the title so it could come in smoothly, rather than just appearing on the screen, was one of the things that I applied to my title sequence.
After finishing my title animation, I made the producer company name and placed it right before the title. I used the same masking technique to have my producer comp to come into frame and just had it in the same font was my title and white. I will most likely change the font later on, but for right now, its the Demoncratica OT.
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