Creative Motion Graphic Titling for Film, Video, and the Web: Dynamic Motion Graphic Title Design

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.

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* 4-color cookbook packed with step-by-step tutorials that will have you titling like a pro in hours * Provides essential lessons on using sound in titles, editing titles, as well as effective use of typography * DVD contains sample movies and project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book, as well as titling chapters from other Focal books with instructions on titling in specific software applications

Customers please note that files on the DVD/CD that accompany the print version of this book are NOT available when you buy the Kindle or other electronic versions of the book

Table of Contents

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
Chapter 10. Completing the Creative Process