Creating titles

Whilst editing our trailer, I came up with the placement of our titles, their content and their aesthetics. To aid this, I looked back on past research I had done for titles, and I also looked at the titles used in 'Fish Tank' as this is a social realist film that we have taken a lot of inspiration from and would have a similar style of titles. 

For the first title that is used in the trailer, it reads "At six she wanted a barbie doll..." this suggests of the main character's, Jane's, happiness and innocence as a child. The font I chose was Lantinghei SC, which is a thin, simple sans serif font. We wanted it to be a clean, simple font to highlight the superficial aspects that is shown in the media. We also experimented in the typography in the film that I made, with blues in the text, and so I wanted to replicate this, which the blue highlights specific words to emphasise them. 

The next title says "At eighteen she wanted to be one". Again, the "be" is emphasised by being a different colour to the rest. The style of the title, along with the first title is a narrative style as it accompanies the shots to give more information about the narrative of the trailer. This title shows the transition from the child at six being happy and innocent, to her now at eighteen striving for perfection, which ultimately initiates her downfall. 

The next title says "From the award winning director Caitlyn Watson", which is a convention in trailers to show the name of the director of the film. Especially if the trailer has a low budget, the past works of the director could bring in fans and the audience for this new film. 

For the next trailer, it reads "A girl's internal struggle", which has gone back to the narrative style of the first two titles. It gives a description of the film and tells the audience what they are in for in terms of content in the film, showing that the film is about the character's struggle, without explicitly saying that it is a struggle with an eating disorder, this information is left for the shots. 

This title reads "Introducing Best Newcomer Ellie Bartram". This is similar to a title that we saw in the Fish Tank trailer. Because the actor of Katie Jarvis was relatively unknown and wasn't even an actor before the film of Fish Tank, this introduces her into the film and shows that she is something new and exciting. 

This is the end title screen for our film, it includes the typography that I created earlier for the film. I had to edit the typography to have a white border around it as we wanted a black background for the titles, the black of the "Eating" and "Up" was before, lost in the background. I also added the Cannes film festival logo at the bottom to imitate that the film would have been shown at the film festival as it is a prestigious film festival, especially for indie films. 

We then included an ending title after the title showing the typography which reads "Coming Soon", to reinforce that this is a teaser trailer because it hasn't given a release date as yet. This title page also includes the billings block, which is conventional of trailers.