# Film Leader & Film Burn: motion graphics style

> A vintage film text animation: a projector countdown leader gives way to a scratched, weaving film frame with the word. Then the stuck frame bubbles and burns away in orange light. A classic opener for vintage edits, trailers and documentary titles.

- Category: [Analog Video & Glitch](https://aimotions.art/category/analog-video-glitch/)
- Also known as: film countdown, film burn transition, old film effect, projector countdown, light leak, film scratches and dust, celluloid look
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/film-burn-leader/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/film-burn-leader/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Open [TEXT] with an old projector countdown: a warm gray leader with two thin concentric rings, a crosshair and a big black number (5, 4, 3, 2) while a darker clock-hand sweep rotates once per number. Cut to a sepia film frame: [TEXT] in a high-contrast bold serif, cream on deep warm brown, with heavy grain, dust specks, a hair or two, fine vertical scratches, slight gate weave and a gentle exposure flicker at 24 fps. After a few seconds the frame stalls in the gate and burns: an irregular hole bubbles outward with a black charred edge and a glowing orange-to-white ember rim while an orange light leak floods in from the side, until the whole frame is consumed. Return to the leader and loop every 8 seconds.
```

## Visual DNA

- Countdown numbers in rings and crosshairs with a rotating clock-hand sweep
- Warm sepia film frame with grain, dust, hairs and vertical scratches
- Gate weave and gentle exposure flicker at 24 frames per second
- Frame stalls, then a noisy burn hole spreads with a glowing ember rim
- Orange light leak washing in from the edge as the frame burns out

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Film Leader & Film Burn, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/film-burn-leader/