Font tests

I recently was experimenting with the animating of my fonts because we have decided to add fonts to our animation in relation to the text, text will only appear when molly and James are telling their stories. Originally we thought about making the text run with everything both and James say in each scene but after having our crib presentation we realised that animating the text with the stories would be too much and we were advised to reduce it to only animating text to the important words in a only two styles of fonts for both separate for molly and James.

I started practice different techniques for animating the text because It needs to look stylish and effective when entering the page the text and font need to bring forth the emotion and feeling through their movement, style and presentation. I feel that this will also contribute to the emotion of the documentary because it will add feeling through it appearance depending on its colour and style of font.

I practiced moving the letters around in after effects and was introduced to this type of animating by a friend called stroke which works very well and uses the effect of making letters re-appear and disappear through covering the letters presented with a continuous painted stroke almost making the letters invisible. I prefer this style because it will let the text appear and disappear on of screen quickly according to one word.

The Granddad animation which we took inspiration from when starting the project because that featured different styled font which talked through the death of a boys grandfather and his death.