Today we were given an introduction to LiveType and Soundtrach Pro. Two professional grade software application that would obviously be need in the creation of our opening thriller sequence. LiveType allowed to us to create titles that could easily be exported to our film in final cut. It included many features giving you the ability to change just about anything you wanted; Some of the things i enjoyed played around with were the transition effects, their was a huge range and adjusting them on the timeline gave you another degree of control over the way your text could appear, it was easy to adjust the speed and with many effects you had access to the character movements in all direction with a bit of simple tweeaking. This program allows you to change the whole text or apply different style to individual characters and i experimented with drop shadows, glows, colour tints, rotation. Each can be altered to a surprisingly high degree, for example the density of the glow or the angle and position on the x/y axis of the shadows.
Soundtrack pro
much like the other programs we used soundtrack pro is based around a timeline with different layers for seperate musical instruments, rythems and beats. It has an extensive database of souds from one off effects to background music loops and it's easy to place them on the timeline, overlapping different layers and dragging the mouse to simply extend and sorten the sounds. I worked out a way to fade sounds by dragging the corner of bars down and along itself, which worked well but i would like to spend some more time with this software if i get the chance as it's obviously a powerful tool with far greater potential than what i was able to produce with it today
[Above a little clip of a thriller-esque sountrack i was experimenting with during this skills audit - Nothing will show if accessing via a connection that blocks flash eg. the college internet, sorry can't be helped!]
I hope we are able to transfer the skills from this lesson onto our final production.
