Title & Credits BLOG

Completing all aspects of editing visuals and sounds, my partner, Camila Sanchez and I took on the final stage and step of incorporating the title and credits. Taking advantage of our physical collaboration, sharing ideas and perspectives on selecting the appropriate fonts and colors was beneficial. Fortunately, during the planning and research stage a few weeks ago, Camila and I had already pre designed and narrowed the type of font desired for the initial title slide. This prior foundation was favorable, navigating a more precise path. 

However, we ran into a little situation because Imovie had a limited amount of fonts and the specific font we wanted... sadly was missing. Fear not, because you have to work around our problems and not stress, we found a solution. Scrolling through the options, we found the font "Georgia". Elegant yet effortless, this title was everything we were looking for and was pretty similar to the original font selected on Canva platform. Following, tying in with the "GOLD" from the title, Camila and I just HAD TO pick a darker and deeper golden color that was mysterious and clearly visible layered over the dark screen. For a creative and fluid transition, Camila and I had the idea of placing the title "GOLDEN ESCAPE" at the start on both a black screen and the first establishing shot. Initially, we had planned to place the slide solely on the establishing shot, however, the visuals was too crowded and cluttered, ignoring the significance of the title words. Showing the video to our families and third person perspectives, although they enjoyed viewing the film, there remained constant confusion of the repeating funeral scenes. "What are all these flowers" "Why do we keep going back to the urn and what does it have to do with the girl?" This was definitely not good, a major problem. Although our intention was to evoke skepticism and perplexity, there still needed to be a basic understanding of her intentions, wanting to flee, and faking her death. The curiosity needed to remain with the realm of why? The motives. So we decided to focus and edit the visuals to focus on the funeral picture, and following the title slide, and the time and date of the escaping scene. 

As for the credits, this was much less complex despite not discussing and determining the fonts and color. Prior, we had only decided to distributive spread out the credits on the screen, reaching from different corners. Fortunately, having your friend as your partner, ideas connected and determining the final font was easy as pie! Selecting a basic white font, the intention was not to drive the attention away form the main focus on the screen: Grace. Camila and I divided and distributed the roles of the credits such as director, editor, producer, costumer designer, editor, etc. I super happy with how everything turned out! Here are a couple images from the film for examples.