Originally Posted by
Tommy Tallarico
The bevel/emboss job you did on the last post is cheesy. Get rid of that. I don't like the readability and typography of what you're doing either.
Think about it this way: what do you like to see at the opening of a movie? Usually if the artists over-do it or put too many effects in, it looks shitty and dated. It's often just the title thrown on the center of the screen in a basic font. It's almost always simple, and it uses either a white/black color background or the video itself is the background.
Here's a totally standard opening with the totally standard Helvetica bold title. It's not good at all, the typography doesn't match the setting (but you really need to drop that comic serif font you're using now), and it looks too much like a horror logo, but I threw it together to maybe open your mind more to what should be presented at the beginning of any video. I think what you're making would look good in a yearbook, but it won't translate well at all to the screen. You may be constraining yourself a bit much by trying to stick to the school colors, and you're in danger of over-doing the Photoshop filters.
I may be completely off on what's required here, so ignore most or all of this if it's not applicable. You know more about video than I do, I just do MIDI.
Tommy Tallarico
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