Design Clean and Professional Titles
Lesson 46 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post OnlinePhilip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan
Design Clean and Professional Titles
Lesson 46 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post OnlinePhilip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan
Lesson Info
46. Design Clean and Professional Titles
Lessons
Chapter 1 Introduction
1Welcome to the Class
02:12 2What Makes a Great Video
03:17 3What Type of Video Should You Make
02:47Chapter 2: Pre-production
4Come up with a Great Video Ideas
05:05 5Plan Your Video
03:30 6The Pre-production Checklist
04:04Chapter 3 Equipment - Our Suggestions for Getting Started
7Does Equipment Matter
01:34 8Our Recommended Cameras
06:00 9Our Recommended Audio Equipment
04:37 10Our Recommended Lighting Equipment
01:47 11Our Recommended Editing Equipment
02:11 12Our Recommended Drone Equipment
05:35 13Quiz: Chapter 3
Chapter 4:Cinematography Basics
14Exposing Your Shots
05:25 15Compose Your Shots
04:25 16Filming Yourself
01:09 17Getting the Right Shot
03:43 18Choose a Background
02:32 19My Office Video Setup
02:54 20Quiz: Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Tips for Shooting with Different Cameras
21Exposing with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras
06:31 22Focus with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras
02:35 23Stabilize Your Shots
02:57 24Know Your Lenses
03:18 25Shoot with Your Smartphone
05:10 26Shoot with Your Webcam
05:49 27Record Great Screencast Videos
04:20 28Tips for Better Drone Shots
04:06 29Types of Drone Shots
01:43 30Quiz: Chapter 5
Chapter 6: Audio Recording and Microphones
31Choose the Right Microphone for Your Video
03:14 32Record Better Audio in Any Environment
01:27 33How to Use a Lavalier Microphone
02:47 34How to Use a Shotgun Microphone
00:55 35How to Record Audio with Your Computer
01:27 36Quiz: Chapter 6
Chapter 7: Video Lighting
37Why We Light
01:03 38Use Natural Light
04:14 39The 3-point Video Lighting Setup
07:26 40Quiz: Chapter 7
Chapter 8: Editing Better Videos
41Intro to Editing
02:15 42The Post-production Process
07:50 43Craft a Story with Editing
05:21 44Improve Your Audio with Editing
06:34 45Find and Add Music
05:12 46Design Clean and Professional Titles
03:15 47Increase Video Engagement with Calls to Action
01:29 48Quiz: Chapter 8
Chapter 9: Get More Views - Publishing Your Video Online
49Export the Best Quality Video for Online
02:54 50Tips for Posting Online
05:28 51Grow Your Youtube Channel
04:41 52Quiz: Chapter 9
Chapter 10: Case Studies: Real-world Filmmaking
53Case Study - Corporate Promo Videos with Ghirardelli Chocolate
08:54 54Case Study - Event Videography with Major Lazer
08:39 55Case Study - Documentary Films with Phil
14:24 56Case Study - Shooting By Yourself
15:32 57Case Study - Wedding Videography
08:37 58Case Study - Phil's Livestream Setup
04:23Chapter 11: Conclusion
59Thank You
00:59Final Quiz
60Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Design Clean and Professional Titles
adding titles and graphics to your video can make it more engaging and help emphasize a point. You can also make your video more mobile friendly. Have you seen videos on facebook lately? A lot of the viral ones have titles subtitles or just graphical text throughout the entire video so that you can understand what's going on without hearing the audio. Here are my tips for better text graphics. One is to use clean sawn serif fonts. Sarah fonts have decorative flourishes on the ends of the strokes that don't show up nicely in video, especially if you have small text and they're more difficult for people to quickly read. So use songs. Sarah fonts like League Gothic, open songs. Avenir or Railway League Gothic is actually a free option that you can find online. Whereas Avenir is when you have to pay for the font and font squirrel are great places to find fun. Clean and professional fonts. Some of them you have to pay for to use in a commercial project though so make sure you read the fine ...
print tip number two is size matters understand what your distribution is. If you're putting your video online, make sure that your text is big enough, especially for mobile viewers. We've talked about this before with composing your shots but it's the same with text if people are watching on their mobile phone or even their tablet or if it's just on a web browser but in the small youtube player or on a tab that's in the bottom part of the screen. You want to make sure that the text is large enough. I love using small fonts and small text because it can be more cinematic, especially for documentaries and other films. But I only use those small fonts if the film will be showing on a bigger screen or at least full screen viewing when I'm creating and posting videos that I put on vimeo dot com. I generally know that the audience is more interested in paying full attention to that video and perhaps watching full screen. So in those instances I might use a smaller font size to be more cinematic. Otherwise I make it bold and big. My third tip is to make the text stand out and there's different ways to do this one is by using a color that stands out from the background. I usually just use white or black text and I put the white text over darker parts of a screen or the black text over lighter parts, colored text can look a little bit amateur and not as professional. Good in some cases if you're being more creative, but if you want color at a text box or color block behind your text. And this is another thing that you can do to make it stand out and what we've been doing in this course all along and if all else fails and you still can't easily read your text. Try adding a stroke a drop shadow effect or put the text on a separate title card. My last tip for better text graphics is to simplify to be short and concise. People don't watch videos to read a novel, so just include either the key words or short sentences and make sure that it's on the screen long enough for someone to read. Use these tips to make your text look more professional and your videos more engaging.
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