Designing Inter-titles

 Here is how I created my inter-titles that feature at the end of my trailer. I wanted to make them look professional, so I looked at what font style was used in pre-existing movie posters and trailers. I gathered that the font used is a tall slim font, typed in capitals. Also a feature I noticed was that the names of the people in the inter-title paragraph were notably bigger that the rest of the text. With this information I went onto dafont.com and found a font called 'Steelfish' that, when typed in capitals, mimics the look of the font on real movie posters.

I then downloaded 'Steelfish' onto my computer so that I could type out my inter-title on sketch to then be put onto my film trailer.

Once Steelfish downloaded, it then had to be installed onto the computer which was done easily my double-clicking the 'Steelfish' link and then clicking install on the top left of the pop-up.

Now that I had Steelfish installed, I went onto sketch and created a black rectangle that fit the size of the trailer. Then I wrote my inter-titles, making sure to make the names bigger that the rest of the text. I included the production company name and the names of the cast and crew.

Before adding it to my trailer, I asked some of my peers if there was anything that could be done to improve the look of my inter-titles, and two people said that it may look better if had added the release date to the slide, as it is more informative to the audience watching. I went back onto sketch and made the improvement and it overall does look better now. It is now ready to be added to the trailer.

Another inter-title that I created was for the beginning of my trailer, and it it the logo of the production company that I created. I also made this inter-title on sketch, which was then saved and added into imovie as a jpeg. Including the production company logo is something that I decided to do as it follows the conventions of the film trailers that I had seen that fit my chosen genre.

Another aspect of inter-titles that I included were stills of each character and their name to help the audience understand who is who. To make these I took still shots from footage within the trailer and uploaded the photos to sketch. Then I added the name of the character in the same font as the rest of the trailer and print products to show continuity. I then saved the images as a jpeg and uploaded them back into iMovie, placing them where I wanted the characters names to pop up. I chose to do these inter-titles like this as from my research I found that numerous indie/coming of age dramas include this feature. I used different colours on each inter-title, using light colours for Luna and Tessa, and a red colour for Jamie, showing connotations of badness and evil.