After Effects

Coursework Analysis

This is a Prezi I created analysing my coursework in terms of key concepts and different theories, which helped me understand how it is and can be more successful.
http://prezi.com/u181jl5ryly4/coursework-analysis2/

Coursework Analysis2 on Prezi

This however is a more in depth version of the Prezi, that acts as a source of notes for me.



http://prezi.com/ersb2k5jtoaq/coursework-analysis/

Coursework Analysis on Prezi

Production Diary 28/03/12

For the past few weeks I have been continuing to edit my music video in Adobe After Effects, which has proved to be a very time consuming task. However, I feel much happier with my music video now I am starting to add effects to the footage and get more creative with it, particularly my green screen performance shots. I think the cartoon look is very effective compared to what I originally planned, of having just a plain white screen behind the performers. I have had some difficulties, for example I accidently left a fade in between the green screen and a location shot which made it too hard to sufficiently remove the background. However, with the help of my teacher and other students I was able to overcome these, though they did end up taking up more time than I anticipated thus I have to work faster now than I had hoped.

As I can only edit my music video in school, I am currently writing my evaluation at home so as to make the most of the time and facilities I have. I have begun to create a video for question 4, importing clips of my music video, using Cam Studio to record how I made certain effects and recording a voice over of my essay.

Green Screen Removal

Audience Feedback - Music Video Third Draft

Third FdraftAudience Feedback Form

Music Video Third Draft

This is my third draft of my video, there are still some improvements and corrections I know I need to make, but as the majority of these are fairly minor I decided to gain some audience feedback, and watch it through exported myself to see how it would look as a final product and where exactly any problems may be.

Production Diary - 26/03/12

Audience Feedback - Music Video Second Draft

Elliot's video response
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Audience Feedback - Music Video Second Draft

Emilie's Video Response

Audience Feedback - Music Video Second Draft

Daniella's Video Response:

Music Video Second Draft

Production Diary 10/03/12

This week I have been working on my second draft of my music video, and have finished and exported it. I spent the time removing the shots I felt were out of focus or too similar, and instead added in the shots I recently gained from my video shoot with Verity. I feel that this make it look much more professional and interesting as the shots are more varied, for example I have included shots from her room and her in high heeled shoes. I will now collect audience feedback on this draft, and focus on how I can further improve my music video.

Production Diary 02/03/12

Yesterday I conducted an additional shoot with my main actress, in order to gain some more footage of her in extreme close ups as I felt this part of my music video was not as prominant as I first planned, instead there was a lot of perofrmance based green screen footage. I felt this went very well, as I was more familiar with the camera and how to adjust its settings such as using shallow focus to create more visually interesting shots. I also felt more prepared this time, as I went there knowing the exact shots I wanted to get thus I was able to be more clear with my actress as to what to do.

Here is some example footage that I gained from this shoot: