Titles/Credits/Intertitles/Supers

Final Draft style: Action

Opening title or credits

If you want to indicate when the opening title sequence or credits will appear you can use one of the following:

OPENING CREDITS

ROLL OPENING CREDITS

TITLE SEQUENCE

Examples

OPENING CREDITS

NOTE: "ROLL CREDITS" is used for the closing credits or final credit roll.

Title Card or Intertitle

The Title Card or Intertitle can be used to provide specific information (e.g. absolute or relative dates, locations, etc.) that might otherwise not be possible to convey. It may also be used for chapter or thematic headings.

This would typically be over black, a solid color, or a static graphic background.

Examples

Location

TITLE CARD: Montreal

Specific date

TITLE CARD: September 12, 2019

Relative date

TITLE CARD: 2 weeks later

TITLE CARD: Earlier that day

Theme/chapter

TITLE CARD: A stitch in time saves nine.

Super / Chyron

SUPER, short for superimpose, or CHYRON are used to indicate that something, usually text, is superimposed over the moving image.

Common uses include stating absolute or relative dates or times, displaying the name of a location, identifying a character, etc.

To add a super, use the word SUPER (in caps) followed by a colon then the text to be supered in quotation marks.

Examples

Indicating a relative time:

SUPER: "Two hours earlier"

Indicating a location and time:

SUPER: "Montreal, 9:00am"

If you want the text to appear over black, you could use:

BLACK SCREEN:

SUPER:

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)

FADE IN:

For showing text on backgrounds instead of over a shot, also see TITLE CARDS.

TV shows may use CHYRON instead of SUPER.

CHYRON: "Headquarters"

CHYRON is a brand of character generator used in broadcast and post-production to superimpose text.

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