Captivate your audience and enhance your storytelling with this tutorial based 4-color cookbook, featuring dozens of solutions to your titling needs. Each chapter includes case studies and interviews with the pros, lending cutting insight and lessons learned that will have you creating inspired title sequences in no time.
The book features genre-based tutorial sections, with step by step instructions for creating effective horror, comedy, drama, and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title sequences in blockbuster movies are included (Se7en, The Sopranos, 24, The Matrix). Other tutorials teach you how to effectively use sound and VFX in your titles, and also included is instruction on editing your title sequence. These techniques, as well as chapters on the essentials of typography allow you to apply these lessons to your title sequence regardless of whether it's for TV, the web, or digital signage.
Also included is a DVD with sample clips, as well as project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book. As an added bonus we've included 3 titling chapters from other Focal books, with specific instructions on titling within certain software applications.
Chapter 1 Title Sequences: Function with Form
Chapter 2 A Brief History of Title Sequences
Chapter 3 The Essentials of Typography and Time
Chapter 4 Lights, Color, and Clarity: Preparing Your Titles
Chapter 5 Importing Text and Other Files into After Effects
Chapter 6 Title Sequences in Production: The Camera and the Edit
Chapter 7 Sound in Movie Titles
Chapter 8 Essential Techniques
Chapter 9 Famous Movie Title Techniques
Chapter10 Compledting the Creative Process
Bill Byrne is a professional multimedia artist and editor for TV and film, with clients such as Electronic Arts, NBC, Tiffany & Co., ABC Sports, ESPN, Panasonic, Snickers, and RCA Records. He is also a Professor of design and animation at The Art Institue of Austin, TX, as well as an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.
Yael Braha (B.A. in Graphic Design, M.F.A. in Cinema) is the Director of Motion Graphics Design Program at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, where she teaches Title Design, Advertising, and Music Video Classes. She has created web design, motion graphics, film, video, and print design work for over 16 years for clients such as Ferrari, RAI, KQED, CBS, NBC, G4, and PBS. She is an Apple Cerified Trainer in Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Color.