Adding titles to your home movies is among the most underrated components of visual storytelling. I've endured many home movies that could have easily used titles in place of a bad transition where the camera shakes as the videographer moved between rooms during a scene change from the family dinner preparation in the kitchen to the family eating dinner in the dining room. A simple cut is often good enough, but when its not, a title can go miles in filling in gaps during events. There's some good discussion about making video titles going on around the Web over the last few days. About.com Video Guide, Carl Plumer, talks about some of the ways titles can be used to impact a story. In much greater depth, Carl makes a very solid case for the proper use of titles, clearly demonstrating that titles are most definitely not just for creating opening credits sequences. Almost 9 months after I incorporated the sign at a venue where I recorded a performance by Steven Page into my own movie titles, I finally got around to stepping through the process in my latest tutorial on creating video titles with still images.
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