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Hello again- I am doing the opening crawl for my edit of Ep. II (Shroud of the Dark Side) in Adobe Illustrator (to be scrolled at a later point), but lack the proper knowledge on the relative sizes of the fonts to each other, formatting, etc. I did this crawl by first recreating the “Phantom Menace” crawl on Illustrator and comparing it to the real thing, making necessary changes until it appeared to be right. Then, I used the template to create this crawl.
However, I know that many of you (like Darth Editous, who did the crawls for the ADigitalMan edits) already have much experience with this type of thing, and I was wondering if any one of you could give me additional formatting tips or things that I have done incorrectly. Because after reading the tutorials on theforce.net, I decided to do it without any tutorials, to begin with (as so much of the formatting and font info is wrong there). Here’s a detailed description of the formatting I used:
-The centered episode title “Episode II” is NewsGothic BT Bold, at 45 pt (and stretched horizontally to 20).
-Then, under this, I have an empty line of NewsGothic BT Bold at 5 pt
-Under this is the centered movie title in Univers LT 49 LightUltraCondensed, 88 pt. Normally I wouldn’t do this, but I compressed it (-30 horizontally) due to the length of the title.
-Under this is another blank line, this time of Univers LT 49 LightUltraCondensed at 45 pt.
-The body of the crawl is NewsGothic BT Bold at 37 pt and justified. Occasionally, I wouldn’t like the way that the lines were broken up, and so with the space bar, I nudged a word or to onto the next line to make the distribution better aesthetically. I believe that the crawl length matches that of the originals, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
-The spaces between the paragraphs are NewsGothic BT Bold at 39 pt as opposed to 37 pt
Understand that a lot of this was by eye and by simply trying to compare to the original crawl (perspective corrected). However, I know that you are all laughing to yourselves at the elementary mistakes I’ve made at this point. You would have my deepest thanks if you helped me fixed these things. Perhaps others would be able to create the opening crawl more easily with this info.
Thanks!
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition