Lower Thirds Decision

We were told we had to come up with a lower third that is uniform across all of our videos. After the group has discussed this with our tutors we were given a rough guide as to what we were supposed to have, and then I came up with a professional looking style which we would all use on our videos. What I came up with was:

Video Generators > Text > Lower Thirds

Text: Name
Font: Arial 45pts
Style: Bold

Text: Course
Font: Arial 36pts
Style: Normal



Video Generators > Matte > Colour Solid

Colour: Black
Opacity: 40%
Crop:
Top – 70
Bottom – 10

















We decided to have a black bar going across the whole width of the video at 40% opacity as a good backdrop for the text. The lower third effect has 2 lines of text by default so I decided that the top line should be the persons name and the second line for what they are doing. I also thought the name is slightly more important and to emphasise this I made some small changes to the top line (45pt size instead of 36pt and bold) which distinguishes it from the second line. I believe it looks quite effective and not obtrusive.

We decided together that the text and black backdrop should fade in together over half a second and then stay on the screen for 3 - 4 seconds before fading out together over half a second.