14. Wiggling Words: Changing the Text Appearance
Star Wars: A New Hope opens with that iconic line: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....” The words fade out, and the Star Wars icon bursts onto the screen as the music plays. The icon gets sucked backward, almost like a spaceship attempting to leave Earth’s orbit, and as it disappears into the far distance, words begin scrolling onto the screen, telling the backstory of A New Hope.
The movie creators could have had the words move like movie credits, beginning as a straight line at the bottom of the screen and traveling upward at a slow pace. But that’s not the way the words appear. Instead, the words take the same trajectory as the Star Wars icon, starting big to convey that they’re close ...
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