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 Intertitles
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This iMovie exercise teaches: |
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● How and where to insert film titles
● How long a title or an intertitle should remain on screen
● How titles interpret silent films and lend tone and meaning to talkies
● How fonts & other design elements can enrich your movie
(Instructions for Windows Movie Maker are here). |
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1. Download these backgrounds of intertitles that Manuel Orazi drew for L'Atalantide. Download, too, these six files. They are two and half minutes of the film itself. |
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2. In iMovie, create a new standard format movie. Call it "Intertitles." |
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3. Import the shots and shot sequences you downloaded into your project. Drag each into the workspace. Using the inspector or the clip trimmer, expand each clip to its maximum length. |
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4. Select five of the intertitle backgrounds—you pick which—and insert them between, after, and before the shots and shot sequences. View your "movie." |
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Now reassemble your clips and intertitles into whatever dream logic they suggest. [Regard yourself as the wind passing through someone else's dream. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí made Un Chien Andalou (1929) this way.] |
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5. From Windows>Titles drag a blank Centered Title onto your first intertitle background. In the [right space area], overwrite the words "Title Text Here" with whatever text you'd like to try as intertitle. Select your text. Click "Show Fonts."
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6. Select a font. Fonts such as Bordeaux Roman Bold LET, Gabriola Regular, Bernard MT Condensed, Birch Std, and Harrington Roman all suggest Orazi's hand-lettered characters. Use one of those or pick whatever font feels right to you.
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7. Repeat the process for each intertitle background. Replay your "movie" to check the flow of the story that your intertitles suggest. |
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