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18/01/2010
17/01/2010
Rationale MOVIE SEASON
Brief title
A set of 5 TV idents, lasting 10 seconds each, to promote a season of Mystery Movies on Film 4.
Subject and rationale
Developed from Mystery novels, these movies used to be very popular through out the 1930's-1980's. Since then they are much less frequent in cinemas and also less popular.
In timing with the new Sherlock Holmes movie, out this winter I am going to promote a series of classic mystery movies. These movie titles will be generated from a questionnaire asking for peoples favorites.
There is a large variety of mystery movies out there, so i will categorize the ones from the questionnaire. Into audience (i.e childern, teen, adult) crossed genera, (ie, comedy- pink panther, Thriller- Psycho, action- Sherlock Holmes.) also times of day each ident would be suitable to broadcast.
The idents, will be keeping in tone with Mystery movies. (suspense, suspicious, moody, sound effects etc.)
Design Direction
I have not restricted myself to a colour pallet just yet as one will develop later. The idents will be mainly image based with the only type indicating film4 and mystery movie season title. To keep in tone, the fonts will be generated from visuals of mystery movies.
For time and quality reasons i think the designs will be vector based developed from hand drawings.
A set of 5 TV idents, lasting 10 seconds each, to promote a season of Mystery Movies on Film 4.
Subject and rationale
Developed from Mystery novels, these movies used to be very popular through out the 1930's-1980's. Since then they are much less frequent in cinemas and also less popular.
In timing with the new Sherlock Holmes movie, out this winter I am going to promote a series of classic mystery movies. These movie titles will be generated from a questionnaire asking for peoples favorites.
There is a large variety of mystery movies out there, so i will categorize the ones from the questionnaire. Into audience (i.e childern, teen, adult) crossed genera, (ie, comedy- pink panther, Thriller- Psycho, action- Sherlock Holmes.) also times of day each ident would be suitable to broadcast.
The idents, will be keeping in tone with Mystery movies. (suspense, suspicious, moody, sound effects etc.)
Design Direction
I have not restricted myself to a colour pallet just yet as one will develop later. The idents will be mainly image based with the only type indicating film4 and mystery movie season title. To keep in tone, the fonts will be generated from visuals of mystery movies.
For time and quality reasons i think the designs will be vector based developed from hand drawings.
13/01/2010
After Effects 'applying sound'
Over last week i have been thinking of ways to add a 'mysterious' quality, to the idents. Such as imagery, type, colours... etc. However i over looked sound, come to think of it, sound effects and music play a key role in mysterious films to set the tone and add atmosphere. So i paid particular attention during this lecture as i knew i would be using sound in my idents.
Notes from session
Audio file formats that can be imported into After Effects WAV, MP3, AIFF
properties to work with are, volume (key frame to fade in/fade out), waveform, audio level (to control sound in background and dialog on top)
For dvd remember to add finish composition to render queue then check setting i.e make sure audio output is checked. Then render to export as quicktime player.
Towards the end of the session i learnt how to control the speeds of movement on an object. This change of constant speed makes the object appear to move in a more organic/natural way.
The example below is of a pendulum, i've added a few sound effects too. May not appear realistic yet, just need a bit more practice.
Notes from session
Audio file formats that can be imported into After Effects WAV, MP3, AIFF
properties to work with are, volume (key frame to fade in/fade out), waveform, audio level (to control sound in background and dialog on top)
For dvd remember to add finish composition to render queue then check setting i.e make sure audio output is checked. Then render to export as quicktime player.
Towards the end of the session i learnt how to control the speeds of movement on an object. This change of constant speed makes the object appear to move in a more organic/natural way.
The example below is of a pendulum, i've added a few sound effects too. May not appear realistic yet, just need a bit more practice.
11/01/2010
16/12/2009
Animation 3
Storyboard
Development of animation
Screen shots
Again for some reason i can't get the screen shots in the right order
Development of animation
Screen shots
Again for some reason i can't get the screen shots in the right order
Animation 2
Storyboard
Animatic
I have scanned the story board into the computer. Then took screen shots of each slide and used these to place into after effects and produce the animatic.
Screen shots
Final Animation
Animatic
I have scanned the story board into the computer. Then took screen shots of each slide and used these to place into after effects and produce the animatic.
Screen shots
Final Animation
15/12/2009
Purple 'fold' animation
Storyboard
The Screen shots
i tried a few times to display them in the right order and this is the best i can do (click on image for better view)
Final animation
The Screen shots
i tried a few times to display them in the right order and this is the best i can do (click on image for better view)
Final animation
14/12/2009
Fold animation 2
During lunch today i produced this simpler animation representing fold. This too is uploaded on you tube. (search words, pearlbagd, fold, year2)
10/12/2009
First video on youtube
After some experimenting in After effects, I have found a few movements that could be applied to my 'fold' text.
To produce the Concertin effect. The text needs to be cut up into individual vertical strips using photoshop. Also adding a white background, to act like paper folding. This new file was then opened in After Effects. With some help form Mike, I learnt how to move each anchor point, then rotate each vertical strip to time. As i wanted each strip to correspond to the next without splitting, Mike showed me how to attach them via the 'parent' tool. so they were all attached as well as move freely. see video below to make more sense of it.
I will be making changes to the start and ending, also add moving shading to make it appear more '3D'. The timings need to be changed to.
to access this video and future clips on 'you tube' by me. search pearlbagd.
16/12/09 this video is no longer on you tube. I've replaced it with a much better version :-)
To produce the Concertin effect. The text needs to be cut up into individual vertical strips using photoshop. Also adding a white background, to act like paper folding. This new file was then opened in After Effects. With some help form Mike, I learnt how to move each anchor point, then rotate each vertical strip to time. As i wanted each strip to correspond to the next without splitting, Mike showed me how to attach them via the 'parent' tool. so they were all attached as well as move freely. see video below to make more sense of it.
I will be making changes to the start and ending, also add moving shading to make it appear more '3D'. The timings need to be changed to.
to access this video and future clips on 'you tube' by me. search pearlbagd.
16/12/09 this video is no longer on you tube. I've replaced it with a much better version :-)
09/12/2009
02/12/2009
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