Salford City College offers a unit in Motion Graphics and Video Compositing. The document describes a title and credit sequence project. It states that at the beginning and end of the sequence, credits are displayed to list the actors and cast/crew. The techniques used include caption-based credits with white text on a dark background. The movements are simple fades for the opening, and a scrolling effect for the closing credits. No advanced techniques were used.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Motion Graphics and Video Compositing Unit 64
Use of text: Title and Credit Sequence
(Title, Credits, animated captions, stings,
indents, interactive menus, web banner)
Brief description: At the beginning of the sequence we see credits tell us the name of each actor/actress.
What do you see?
And at the end sequence we see the names of all cast/crew scroll down the screen.
Techniques used: There is no animation, It is all caption based. Colours are white writing against a darker
Animation, Visual Effects, Colour Rendering, background. Movements are usually fade on and off for the opening sequence but for the
Graphics, Movement closing sequence the movement is all scrolling down only.
Advanced techniques: n/a
Blur, Sharpen, Distortion, Rotation, Opacity
Technical comments:
Video Format, Screen Ratio, Resolution,
Frame rate, Compression
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2. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Glossary
Motion graphics - Graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are
usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.
Compositing video - When there are several different clips of video are layered over one another to create a single image.
Interactive Menus – DVD Interface or Interactive Menus on a web page
Ident– The ‘call sign’ of a channel or production company to identify themselves on screen, usually shown before a programme.
Animated Captions – Animated Graphics layered over an image / video
Web Banners – A form of web advertising that is embedded into a web page. They are used to attract a viewer to their website. A Web
Banner usually a mix of motion graphics and video
Video Format - 3 Main Formats HD, PAL, NTSC. HD is the highest resolution (720 or 1080 vertical lines in the image). PAL is the UK
Standard definition image (576 vertical lines). NTSC is the US Standard definition image (480 vertical lines). Now in the
digital age we now look at video format in terms of pixels (i.e. High definition 1080; 1920 x 1080 or 2,073,600 pixels)
Screen ratio – Standard TV ratio is 4:3; this means that for every 4 units wide it is 3 units high. It is likely that the screen ratio will be
Widescreen (16:9) in a cinematic sequence.
Resolution – The amount of detail in an image or signal, such as Standard TV Definition and High Definition. See Video Format.
Frame Rate - The number of video or film frames displayed each second (frames per second; fps). PAL frame (standard UK TV) is 25
fps, NTSC (standard US TV) is 30 fps, film is 24 fps. This means as NTSC updates more regularly there is less strobing
(jerkiness).
Compression – The use of Codecs (WMV, DivX) to reduce the file size of a video by a variety of methods.This sometimes means a loss in
image quality (a “lossy”). Codecs are found in Video Cameras, DVD players / recorders, Editing Packages, Video upload
sites)
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