When watching the trailer to a film you will notice that text often appears throughout it e.g. the title of the film, what critics say or clues about the movie. As this is only a rough edit and we have no fully researched what kind of text is used in a film trailer we decided to include stars (rating) and the phrase 'A Modern Cat and Mouse Game' to entice the audience. The purpose of using text is to break up the clips and speed up the trailer without it seeming rushed but also remaining relevant.
We wanted to show a star rating in the middle of the trailer to give the appearance of it being a 'must-see' at the cinema but we had issues trying to find the appropriate stars to use. To overcome this we used an image of the correct stars and cropped it suit our trailer. However, another problem arose when Photoshop would not allow us to insert this image into MoviePlus. To overcome this situation we attempted to see if their was a star symbol from a Word Document that we could use instead but there was not. As a result we just used the '*' on the keyboard and when we resized it, it looked professional and will be ideal to use.
For the text in our trailer we used an effect to make the writing glow before it fully appears in the trailer. The effect of using this makes the text seem eery and and uncertain which will hopefully create tension for the audience. It is relevant to the genre of film that we are making, a thriller, but we are still in the process of researching how other film trailers use text in theirs. 
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