Graphics Planning - Background and Movement Influences

Although many trailers like 'Revolutionary Road' and 'Blue Valentine' use basic text on black background for the credits, we thought that it would be a lot better to follow other trailers with more inventive backgrounds on the credits. We thought this was much better as it helps set the scene and mood and also would look a lot more professional to use a slightly moving background, and will look work better to create more colour. However, we still want to retain a level of simplicity so we don't want to use distracting font. 

In 'The Lucky One', they use a faded and quite basic background for the credits, but also include a bright exposure in the movement of the title. 

I really like the use of light in these credits as it is a lot more interesting than a simple title on the background. We would like to incorporate a light change in our credits though possibly something more subtle and elegant like in 'Like Crazy':

For the credits, the graphics fade in and out from the scene. They also play around with light with the glitter and put gradients across the font, which is very subtle but works well in making it look professional and classy. This also happens in the titles:

In the trailer for 'Dear John', the background does not actually move or reflect light (though fades in and out), but the actual credits do, drawing more attention to them.

Through looking at these examples of credits, I have understood that simple font is still necessary in terms of conforming to the conventions of a romantic genre trailer, however there are ways to develop the graphics to make it look more interesting than that of 'Revolutionary Road' and 'Blue Valentine.' Evidently colour is extremely important in terms of symbolism for each film - 'The Lucky One' tries to replicate the desert as Logan is fighting in Iraq, whilst 'Dear John' uses blue as an echo of the sea which is where John and Savannah spend a lot of their time. I really like the credits for 'Like Crazy' as it is softer and more romantic trying to recreate a feeling of fairy lights. This would also be perfect for our film as we want to create this same comfortable, homelike romance and we will be filming a lot of fairy lights when we film at Christmas in the Laines in Brighton. To come up with similar graphics, we will be using Final Cut Motion for our credits.

 

W.H.