| Make your titles come alive. Instead of static words
make them float around, move from side to side, travel through space,
etc.. There are some very good examples in the Dpaint III tutorial.
Another thing is to get PD drawings and create a small slideshow
in anticipation of your title. Ej. I started my vacation video with
a picture of Earth from space, zooming eventually to the spot on
the globe where I had my vacation and followed-up with the titles.
I found a drawing of reindeer pulling Santa's sleigth. So I
used it as a brush in Dpaint and made it "pull" a banner with the
titles.
Miguel A. Alvarez
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| I figured out how to make Director scroll, and how to use
FormsinFlight II to flip around an IFF file like a turning sign.
Also, I made a 3d turning sign (in FIF II)
for a tv station, but they didn't like
it. Also, a director of a cable tv show just wanted white titles on
black background (regardless of broadcast tv tending to squash the
white and black together, but this is cable anyway), and he didn't
want anything interesting. he likes the titles at the end of woody
allen movies, very simple white on black, times font, but we are using
pica because I can't find a 36-pixel times font, or 48 better.
I did however animate the logo in a simple way.
When someone wants something simple, give it to them. ALso, titles
that use effects should use effects that anticipate the action in the
film. In tv classes years ago a teacher said, divide the screen into
15 horizontal lines, and use alternate (7) lines for text, but that's
not a real rule.
Also, I took notes of the order of titles in different shows:
Good Morning, Viet Nam, ; Trying Times (on PBS), and another show.
The titles should be consistant, all in the same font and same
arrangements of role name/actor name.
People's names are in all capitals.
Maybe I'll post the order of credits from my notes.
Tom
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| Re: .1
> Make your titles come alive. Instead of static words
> make them float around, move from side to side, travel through space,
make your viewers sea sick....
(Sorry, Miguel, I couldn't resist.)
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| REM THIS IS A PROGRAM EXAMPLE OF SCROLLING IN DIRECTOR LANGUAGE
REM FOR COMMODORE AMIGA; 1-28-90 thomas e. janzen
rem this is only for hi res interlace. Other Director (tm)
commands make it possible to read the true resolution of a screen.
This could be used to make this routine more general. However, I
assume you the screens being scrolled must have the same resolution,
same lace, same pallette, same depth. It looked a tad flakey on Time
24 font, which has thin arms and serifs. I haven't tried it since.
The technique below scrolls up but could be adapted to scroll sideways
or down. I assume.
SETBLACK 1
SPEED 2
REM SPEED OF 2 IS A PRETTY SLOW BUT PRETTY SMOOTH SCROLL
LOAD 1,"RAM:BLACK"
rem You need a black screen of same resolution as the titles to scroll
rem into
LOAD 2,"RAM:title1"
rem gee I could have written titles directly with "TEXT"
LOAD 3,"RAM:title2"
rem screen buffer 3 will be scrolled into screen buffer 2
DISPLAY 1
SETBLACK 0
REM SET THE DEFAULT VALUES OF BLITTER DESTINATION AND MODE
BLITDEST 1
BLITMODE 192
TITLE=2
OUTTITLE=2
INTITLE=3
rem scroll title 1 into black
GOSUB 800
rem scroll out title1 and scroll in title 2
GOSUB 900
scroll out title 2 leaving black
TITLE=3
GOSUB 850
END
800 FOR YPOS=399 TO 0 STEP -1
REM THIS SCROLLS IN BUFFER TO MIDDLE TITLE HOLDING CURRENT BUFFER STILL
HEIGHT=400-YPOS
BLIT TITLE,0,0,0,YPOS,640,HEIGHT
PAUSE 1
NEXT
RETURN
850 FOR HEIGHT=400 TO 1 STEP -1
REM THIS SCROLLS TITLE UP AND OUT FROM MIDDLE
YPOS=400-HEIGHT
BLIT TITLE,0,YPOS,0,0,640,HEIGHT
PAUSE 1
NEXT
RETURN
900 FOR YPOS=399 TO 0 STEP -1
REM THIS SCROLLS OUT OUTTITLE FROMMIDDLE AND SCROLLS IN INTITLE
HEIGHT=400-YPOS
BLIT INTITLE,0,0,0,YPOS,640,HEIGHT
BLIT OUTTITLE,0,HEIGHT,0,0,640,YPOS
PAUSE 1
NEXT
RETURN
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