This document discusses experimenting with different live text effects, fonts, colors, and backgrounds for a horror film production or trailer. The author tests various textures, colors, effects like apparition and wobble, and movement to see what looks eerie or ghost-like. They ultimately choose a red slot machine text over a moving brick wall background to symbolize luck and match the film's theme, and red decks of cards that flip over to reveal the text as one of the best effects that ties into the trailer.

1. Live text inserts
Lauren Fitzsimons

2. This text is the wrong
size and doesn’t fit on
the page this will
have to be changed.
The green colour
match well with the
grey background it
makes it stand out.
Here I have added
the name of the
production team. I
have associated
corrosive with a
green colour
matching to
chemicals and
destruction.
Here I am
changing the
size and the
colour.
This is where the
effects are added
like the wiggly one I
have used.
Here for the
background I have
added a texture of
smoke this looks
good for a horror
production.

3. By having the colour the
same as the background
this makes the atmosphere
more ghost like.
Using the same background
fog as before I decided to add
a more eerry feel by effects
and experiment with live font
a little bit more.
Here I am dragging
the bars out so that
they are all the same
length but a little bit
longer.
Here I am adding a
effect called
apparition to the text
so that it illuminates
and disappears
faintly.

4. This brick wall
effect for the
background
moves.
This is the colour that I
chose but I think the
green against the brick
wall is too distracting.
This text is very simple as I
haven’t added a effect on
it I think this would be
even busier on the page. I
also think the brick wall
doesn’t relate to a horror
genre it is random.

5. Here It has been
changed to black
and has had a
shadow effect on
top.
Here the light and
shadow effect has
been added under
the live text tab. I
have also added a
wobble effect.

6. This is the text I have
chosen it is called
decks and has been
used before but I
think it would look
good after the trailer
as a good way to
finish off.

7. Here I have used the live
effects text to use a slot
machine this symbolises the
fact that it is luck just like
getting the joker card that the
Trixter think he is. The slot
machine matches the red
background which I have
added in with the textures
tool.
Text is found at the live
effects and the background
was found in the textures
tab and I picked a red one
so it contrasted nicely with
the text but didn’t look
boring or plain.

8. This dark background is
going to make the text
stand out more this is a
useful effect to use.
This text I found was the
best in red after trying a
variety of colours
including white and
black.
This text effect is in the pro
collectors addition and is
called decks – this relates
to the Trixter theme of the
man thinking that he is the
Jokers son. The movement
of these cards turn over to
reveal the text this is one
of the best that matches
the trailer.