Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema

Formats, Aspect Ratio and Letterbox

A course by José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl , Graphic designer and Art Director

100% positive reviews (59)

1,217 students

Audio: Spanish

· · · · · · ·

About the video: Formats, Aspect Ratio and Letterbox

Overview

“Now I will talk about sizes and resolutions for screens, the proportions in their active spaces, as well as important aspects to consider to implement elements on the screen. ”

In this video lesson José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl addresses the topic: Formats, Aspect Ratio and Letterbox, which is part of the Domestika online course: Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema. Learn the theoretical bases and a methodology to design impressive initial titles.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we will see some technical aspects They are important to develop our work. We have formats, we have Aspect Ratio and Letterbox. Lets go see it. Let's start by identifying the screen formats according to standard image quality which is of a resolution 72 pixels per inch. Even more than today, the prediction of audiovisual content it's not only in traditional systems like movies and television, but also streaming with the proliferation of mobile devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets. We have the standard definition or SD, also known as SD TV, Which is 720 by 480 pixels,...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Credit Titles: Typography and Cinema

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (59)
1217 students
5 units
13 lessons (1h 37m)
13 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Animation, Art Direction, Film, Video & TV, Typography

José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

A course by José Luis Coyotl Mixcoatl

Teacher Plus

Graphic designer and Art Director

José Luis Cóyotl is a Graphic Designer from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. He has worked in design studios Prologue Films , with Kyle Cooper, in Los Angeles, California and in Hula + Hula and La Fe Ciega , in Mexico City.

He has devoted a large part of his professional life to teaching, as a design professor in different universities. Currently, he works independently as a designer and art director, mainly developing projects in Mexico and the United States.

He has been designing for print media, such as books and magazines, for more than 18 years; branding, motion design, illustration and design of typographic fonts, as well as custom type. He has also given conferences and workshops in Mexico and South America.