Print screens for Motion

I first opened up Motion>>file>>new>>NTSC Broadcast SD to make it the correct size as my teaser trailer.

Once my page has open I clicked on the ‘text toolbar’ at the top in order to write my text

Text toolbar

This is what my page will look like once I have done the above steps

There is a toolbar on the left which looks like this and this allows you to change your font etc and add effects and preview them.

In order to write my text I first had to change the font by clicking on the inspector tab>>text tab>>format and then in ‘family’ click the arrow down to get the font I wanted which was ‘Distress’ which gave a horror feel to the title

Inspector tab

Text tab

Format

Family Arrow down

The font I wanted ‘Distress’

Once I got my font I started to write my text

It will then appear on the page like the image shown below. As you can see that the title looks small and also we want it in the centre.

In order to do this I highlighted the text and when to the same toolbar where I changed the font from and when on size and clicked the down arrow and made the size bigger. I then dragged it to the centre when making sure its in the centre a yellow line appears horizontally and vertically to show that it is right in the middle however this doesn’t appear when I print screen

Highlighted text

This is what it looked like when I made it bigger and placed it in the centre.

In order to change the colour of my text and add to it I stayed on the same tabs however instead of staying on ‘Format’ I clicked on ‘Style’ which allows me to make changes.

I clicked on this box which opens up a small box with a variety of colours to pick from

preview

This is the small box that appears where I can click on the colour I want or drag that bar to what shade I want it in. My group discussed whether to have the colour white or a dusty grey. We made the choice of dusty grey as it gives more of that sinister look rather than white as white is bright.

Drag this up or down to get the shade you want

Pick the colour you want

This is what it looked like:

From looking at our first cut teaser trailer we decided to add a bit of colour to our title as we thought it was too plain. We added a red/maroon outline to it

This is on the same toolbar of where you change the colour of your text and underneath this appears

Click the box till a tick appears like shown

Change colour to preferred colour by clicking on it and waiting for a small box to appear with various different colours

This box will appear just like it did for changing the colour of the text and change it to the shade and colour you prefer. My group chose a maroon/red colour giving connotations of blood. We wanted it to be a dull red as we didn’t want it to be too bright

This is what it looked like with the outline effect to it and we thought this made it look more spooky and appealing

I repeated these steps for the text ‘COMING SOON’ but in a smaller size and below the ‘HAUNTED’ text. The same colour and outline effect was used on both. This is what it looked like when I finished both text:

The next step was to add effects to each of them. I started of with ‘HAUNTED’ by clicking on the text . Then I went to the toolbar on the left and instead of going on the inspector tab I clicked on the library tab like shown below:

Library tab

When I clicked on the tab the following appeared

I then clicked on behaviour as this lets me apply effects to my text

When I click on ‘behaviour’ as you can see below underneath ‘name’ a list of effects come on to choose from

The effected I added was ‘fade in from center’ to give that slow and simple ending to our teaser. I then previewed it by clicking play below the page

I used the same effect on the text ‘COMING SOON’ and also on coming soon I used the effect ‘grow/shrink’ as we liked the effect of the date coming out however as there wasn’t just a grow effect we had to freeze frame this part in order for the shrink not to show.

In order to make sure that the text and effect comes out at the right time I went to timing on the top toolbar at the right which looked like this> when I clicked on this the below image appeared at the bottom of the page

I dragged each bar to were I want it to stop and where I want it to start

This thin line moves along when it starts playing you can drag it to the part you want to play

Play

After rearranging everything to where I want it, it looked like this shown above. The ‘HAUNTED’ text comes out first with the effect and the other text follows on with its effects it all ends at the same time.

Final look of it: