Character Story Animation

(I Know there is an awkward black screen at the end. I could not figure out how to get rid of it sorry..)

The scope of this project was to create a story using After Effects with multiple scenes and camera changes. First I started with storyboarding the project and deciding that I wanted to make a Captain America story. Then  I drew out my character and scanned in the images. The hardest part came when I started to edit my drawings in Photoshop by changing the lines and adding color. I also added my background in the background at the same time. That took the longest because I am not a very good artist and I had a lot of editing to do to make my drawings better for the assignment. The final step was to make the images scenes in After Effects and make all the scenes into one clip. I learned a lot about time management from this project and about my drawing and how to edit the drawing on photoshop. I would pick an easier topic to draw and spend more time on the After Effects part to make it better quality.  I would still do the same kind of shots just maybe get to work on them more. I will use my lessons about time management on my next project and in all future projects.

Music Video Blog

Music Video

The scope of this music video project was to create a story that told a story and worked with a song of our choice. We chose our song and then  created our theme of bullies and superheroes to go with the song.  The next step was to create a beat sheet which lined up beats of our song with shots of us. Then we went out and shot our stuff which took longer, but we got lots of shots in and got a lot of extra shots. Finally I started the editing stage which took about a week to decide which shots would go best where and what music to use and how to mix it. The music probably took me longest to make the music and beats line up with the shots.

I learned a lot during this video making a longer video with more people in our group. Technically I learned a lot about how to use some different parts of Final Cut Pro and also how to get some cool shots near the camera. Professionally I learned that larger groups mean more likely to get off task and a lot better chance of getting more bloopers and taking longer to film.

If I could do this again differently I would have kept my team on task more and try to make our time spent working more productive and not as much goofing off. I would do that because we had some problems staying on task and focusing on only our projects and not other projects we could have done. I really liked the theme of switching between universes and I would do that again because I loved how it kind of flowed with the music and also added a cool theme to the whole video.

I would use my experiences with large groups and with the sound problems I had in the future on other projects. I think in general I would pick a different song next time just to have less problems with the music.