Lesson 9. Working with Titles, Generators, and Themes

Time

This lesson takes approximately 90 minutes to complete.

Goals

Use the Titles Browser

Add a lower third

Make changes in the Inspector

Import still images to bumper/opens

Work with generators

Explore title themes

All projects, from the simplest to the most complex, require titles of some sort. Opening titles provide information. What are we about to see? In the case of opening credits, who created what we are about to see? Who is starring? Titles can also be an expression of the film’s style. An animated title above a background of colorful, whirling shapes certainly suggests a style of film very different from one with large white text set against a stark black background.

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