The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of rebels struggling to restore freedom to the galaxy Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - the one in which Star Wars becomes a lesson in trade disputes and economic sanctions. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space…. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. Trivia 2: When Star Wars was first released in the crawl did not feature the text "A New Hope" that came later after the film was a success.Īlthough the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
Star Wars Intro Text Effect - How to Create & Pay Homage to the Title Crawl Sequence Episode IV: A New Hope from - the one where we learn a blaster at your side is no match for a hokey religion… "It is a period of civil war.
Note the animated Clone Wars movie did not have a word crawl, nor did Rogue One or the Solo prequel film though it did have explanatory text. The font of the crawl is called News Gothic has also become quite iconic and adopted by many designers. While the text is crawling up the screen, John Williams' famous Star Wars theme is blasting it's familiar notes, creating an attention grabbing start to the film. About ShapeChef ShapeChef is a tool that helps you find and manage graphics and charts for your presentations.Īll rights reserved.Each crawl's prologue gives a quick explanation of the most immediate events leading up to the start of the film. Start the presentation and enjoy the Star Wars atmosphere. Set the shape fill to the same image that was used for the slide background.
Create a Rectangle shape that covers the top half of the slide.
Grab the end of the Up animation timeline bar and drag it to the right until a value of Then select an appropriate graphic click here to download a ready-to-use image file. In the Effect tab, change the values of Smooth start and Smooth end to 0. Double-click the Up animation item in the Animation Pane. Hold down the Shift key while dragging to keep the motion path vertical.Ĭlick the Animation Pane Ribbon button. Grab the red arrow which marks the end of the motion with the mouse cursor and drag it to the top of the slide. Move the text box below the slide so that the first line is directly below the slide edge.
Center the text box on the slide and increase its size so the width of the first line almost matches the slide width. Set the alignment of the text to Justify. Change the font of the text to Arial Black and the size to 44 point. Combine the motion path animation with a shrink animation to simulate the depth effect. Here's a video of the final PowerPoint presentation: To achieve the text crawl effect, I basically had to do three things: Add a 3D perspective effect to the text.Īdd a motion path animation to move the text up. ShapeChef is a tool that helps you find and manage graphics and charts for your presentations. Here's a video of the final PowerPoint presentation. In this post, you will learn how to create a text crawl similar to the one used at the beginning of the Star Wars films.