Making a Small Logo & Creating Another Film Company

Having looked at many of the titles used in trailers, I noticed that they all include small logos in a line at the bottom of the screen. Annie and I created our own production company last year (here) and we kept this as the name 'KILLS PRODUCTIONS' still fits in with our horror genre this year. I decided to make the small logo include just the initial letters as this is simple and neat. I looked through fonts on Photoshop to find a horror-looking one but did not find anything. I tried out a handwriting font but did not like this as it did not fit in with the horror genre and looked unprofessional.

I decided to use a simple font with serifs on the K and P because this looks professional. I added a red glow to both the letters as this fits in with the other titles which all have red glows.








At the end of the trailer for House At The End of the Street there is a acknowledgment title slide and I liked this as all the partners tell the audience that this film has been backed by many companies which indicates that the film must be good.

I researched mOcean and discovered that they were a media/film company so I decided to create one for our trailer to include in the acknowledgment title slide. I called it Legacy Films as that denotes prestigiousness; that the films are are of great quality.

I created another text layer solely for Legacy Films so I could add a different colour glow. I chose for the glow to be yellow as that connotes age; old photos usually turn yellow/light brown from dirt and dust collected over decades.

I added another frame into the animation and duplicated the 2 text layers so that the glow was brighter.

Then I selected this frame and the previous one which had just one text layer and pressed the button on the timeline with the three grey circles called Tween. By adding 3 frames in between the two original frames I had created, this allowed for there to be a smooth fading effect from a dimmer glow to the frame with the brighter glow.