Typography Practice

As George is main editor in the group he felt that it was important to practice his typography before we had even shot the film so that he could develop his understanding and skill on it. The reason for this is because he want to be able to achieve what ever effect we desired without wasting time learning to edit it. In this final title screen he felt that for a first attempt this was not to bad because it went in time with the non diegetic soundtrack and came in and out without any jump cuts or bad editing. However we think he could've used a variety of texts to make certain words stand out.

To make this he was going to use after effects but the software crashed so instead he used final cut's built in motion software. 
Firstly he cut out the actor on photoshop using a freeze frame from the video.

Then he had to get a text. He spent a time looking through texts because we wanted one that looked right and fitted the tone of the film. Before he chose the text he used I tried western fonts because we thought this title screen could be similar to 'The good the bad and the ugly' because of the use of red. However he decided to go down another root and looked at more modern texts.

To add some depth he used a grunge background to have the freeze frame on. Another thing he added was the smoke. He snatched this from an earlier film poster, which was made for this film.The text had to be made to interact with each other, which took a long time because he had to use lots of key frames. 

Credit to George Turner