How to Use Trailer Title Cards | Video Game Trailer Academy

Here are my tips for writing and using title cards in your game trailers! The tl;dr: Title cards can be a powerful tool to augment the messaging of your game and make the game stand out. If the title cards describe your game alone they’re doing a great job! If they make your game sound like many many other games, then they’re going to make your game sound very generic. My quick tips! - First try making the trailer without using title cards - See if the title cards work for your game when unstylized - Make title cards SPECIFIC to your game - Avoid listing and quantifying features Don’t List Content Quantities in Game Trailers Blog post version: — Video Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:23 - What title cards get used for 00:36 - Pedigree title cards 00:57 - Explaining mechanics with title cards 02:09 - Story title cards 03:26 - Game feature & generic title cards 05:15 - Hype title cards 06:13 - Tips for using title cards 07:20 - Inspiration and outro — Links SUPERHOT Launch Trailer - Heaven’s Vault Story Trailer - Afterparty Nintendo Switch Trailer - If Found... Release Date Trailer - The Last of Us VGA 2011 Trailer - District 9 Trailer #2 - Hades v1.0 Launch Trailer - Broforce February Update Trailer - Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator - Neo Cab Story Trailer - Sayonara Wild Hearts Launch Trailer - — Dana Trebella Spoke and Wheel Strategy - — FOLLOW ME! Weekly trailer making tips - Instagram Trailer Tips: Patreon: Website: Twitter: Podcast: Cats’ Instagram: — ABOUT ME Hi, I’m Derek Lieu and I make indie game trailers! I got my start in the movie trailer industry as an assistant editor at a house which produced trailers for: The Matrix Trilogy, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean and many more. Over many years I worked as an editor and started making fan trailers for games, until eventually I got jobs at game trailer houses in Los Angeles where I worked on games like Mortal Kombat X, Shadow of Mordor and lots of LEGO games. Independently I’ve helped make trailers for games like: Half-Life: Alyx, Firewatch, Dead Cells, Subnautica, Spelunky 2, Ooblets, BattleBlock Theater and a lot more. I’m using this channel to teach people about the art of making trailers via video essays, tutorials, reviews, and behind-the-scenes looks at my own work. I think about trailers a lot both for work and fun, so I have A LOT to say about them.