The
last thing to include would be any titles and texts that help the
viewer identify what is on the screen. iMovie has several nice
solutions for this, and I just went with one of their simple ones.
However,
the other kinds of titles that were necessary for this film were
subtitles. Because a large segment of Ramon's fan base are Spanish
speakers, we decided to include Spanish subtitles in order to get a
broader audience base. This subtitle requirement changed how a lot of
the other text would be displayed. Instead of utilizing lower-third
of the screen to help identify people, locations, or music, I had to
place that text somewhere else. I didn't want to block any of the
focus objects on the screen, I decided to place these text items in
the top area of the screen. The problem that arises with using
iMovie, however, is that it is very limited in allowing the user to
alter the standard templates. That is, I couldn't move the text to a
place that I wanted.
I
solved this problem by merely imitating the iMovie template as an
image and layout that I could better manipulate in Photoshop. I
didn't know this before, but iMovie allows me to import images with
transparent alpha channels (like a .png file), so this method
replaced using iMovie's standard templates. (I found out that iMovie
allows using transparent .png files by trying it out; if it didn't
work, then I wasn't sure what I was going to do.) This is a great
method because it allows for a lot more freedom and creativity it
creating static layouts for text. However, if I want something that
animates, I don't think that iMovie offers a solution beyond their
standard templates, since it does not allow the import of image
sequence files.
All
this said, I learned too late was that I should leave all titles
(like names or other labels on the screen) until the end, also. When
I had to change the certain titles for different reasons, it was a
nuisance to go back to the earlier mini movie, change the title,
re-render the scene, and then bring that new mini movie into the
bigger project.
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