When we were adding our credits to our trailer, as I said before in a previous blog, we tried a font and changed the colour of it to fit the trailer colour scheme throughout.
Although this did have the effect that we wanted our credits to have as they also didn't seem to fit in with the handwritten border that the credits were based on which we wanted to keep so that it tied in with the rest of the trailer as the killer's book is like this and is used throughout.
Instead we used the stop motion pictures for our credits. I uploaded the images from dropbox to our event on Final Cut Pro. From here I dragged them onto the timeline of our trailer and used the blade tool to cut a very small part of the image.
Due to the files being pictures and not footage it didn't matter what part I used as long as they were all the same length so that they would all appear for the same amount of time. To do this I would drag the next images underneath one which I had already cut and line up the blade with the end of the image so that they were the same length, I zoomed in to make sure it was precise.
After this I would drag it to the end of the images so that they were in the correct order. When I reached the last image for each credit I made the length that it would appear a bit longer than the others so that the credit would stay up for a length of time at the end for the audience to read. After I had completed each credit I highlighted all of the images and moved it among the footage to where we wanted the credit to appear.
When we played the trailer with all of the credits in place I did have to make some of the last images a bit longer so that they could be seen properly but on a whole they worked really well in our teaser trailer as they kept the momentum of it going and so these will be our credits for our final teaser trailer.
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