After Editing our film, and adding in some basic titles, we decided we weren't happy with the outcome. We thought that because we had spread out our titles throughout the opening sequence, it looked a little bit too much like a trailer, rather than an opening sequence.
I started off by opening up a new project, then created a new composition. I had to change the sizing of the composition to 1920 and 1080. Then I added a new text layer. I typed 'Starring Georgia Stacy as The Baron' to start with, and changed the font to 'Chiller' However, I decided I disliked it, because there was too much text so I edited it to 'Starring Georgia Stacey' then changed the font size and colour.
After I had created a text layer, I clicked on effects and presets. I browsed the presets menu, and came across a menu called 'animation in' I then browsed that menu until I found a preset that I liked. My personal preference was 'Raining Characters In' I dragged the preset onto the text, which added it to the text layer. This now allows my text to animate onto the screen.
After that, I added a new text layer. In order to stop the layers over lapping each other, I had to drag the timeline selection tool to where the previous text layer fades out. Once I have selected the area I want the text to start, I browse through the effects and presets menu, until I find 'Raining characters in' again, and once again drag it onto the text. I then dragged the timeline selection tool to where I want that text to fade out, and add the 'fade out slow' preset.
I repeated these steps for every title I wanted to include in my opening sequence so that they all followed on from each other, rather than being spaced out throughout our opening sequence. This helped us to avoid it looking too much like a trailer.
