After thoughts

Yet again I think I have learned a lot from doing this project. I feel I know more about illustrator than I ever did before. I feel more comfortable using After Effects. I enjoyed seeing the work of others and sometime thought that was a good idea why did I not think of that. I liked the idea that if at first thing don't work out if you try something good can come out of an unexpected event.  PS I like the work I have produced for this project.

Crit

It seems to have been a very long project. I always look forward to Crit This time it was some how different.  Val was able to come in and see our completed work. she felt their should be a few minor tweaks to the video I presented. At the begin there is 10 frames of the still image before it zooms and pans to the clock face. she felt it should start quicker. All the images that are embedded in the segments of the clock should all have the same horizon. When the logo comes out of the last segment it should look like it is embedded in the clock , the same as the other images.

This is the final version submitted version 21

When I submitted the final version of this video. I used generic news music from Garage band as it had the right kind of ending. I also gave two version one with the logo embedded and one with the logo embedded with a red back ground as the example.

Presention of News intro

I had a good class with Chris last Wednesday and showed him my video of the clock faces. He could see that there was a germ of an idea and as we talked about the things he was not so keen on in the video I developed the idea of the clock face showing element of events in Brighton. In the few days before we had another meeting with Val I retouched a high resolution image of the clock face to get rid of the rags combined it with the still image I had taken  down loaded videos from Latest Tv  and placed them on the clock face and created a new video for Val to see.

Clock tower video for presentation 

Val and Kate's response was quite positive. They suggested I remove the sweeping shot at the begin, fill in the rest of the segments. Not have the clock face twist into the logo.

Try and Try again

I had set aside Tuesday the 7th to shoot the clock tower. I got up early caught the train to Brighton took a few shoot of the train station before walking down to the clock tower

and this is what I saw when I got there.

Clock tower

Somebody had cover the Clock tower in rages as part of an art installation this kinda killed my idea there and then. I retired for a coffee and a think I still like the idea of time so I took a long walk to Hove town hall to photograph the clock and any clock i could see on the way. I spent the day photographing as much as I could and then went home to sort out the mess I had now got my self in.

I created this video from the days photography to show my new idea and to see if it was the basis of a good idea.

Another News idea

I have had my doubt about my line of thinking with regard to the video I created for the news idea. I knew it before I even asked the opinion of other. In a nutshell the ideas to messy to much going on I need the idea to be simple. I want the idea to show the passing of time and the day as well as some reference to the area.

One day around the clock tower

I have come up with the idea of filming the clock tower in Brighton through out the day moving round the clock tower as the day passes then putting all the little bits of film to give the feeling of traveling round the clock tower in continuous motion with the whole day passing by. I made a ruff video using images from Google.

Bexhill clock tower work out.

In preparation I have worked out that I need to divide the clock tower in to 18 segments and shoot over 12 hours. I plan to start at 8 am an finish at 8pm. My intention is to shoot 10 seconds of video every hour but shoot one complete circuit. I have had a dummy go with the local clock tower.

The News intro

Now that the channel ident has been submitted I can fully concentrate on my news program. I have identified the key themes that make up news intros.

A lot of channels use radiating rings to use as wipe to introduce images.

The walk through where images are shown of people in up and coming broadcast.

Point to point this is where the image has place names linked by lines new with new names added

Lastly a globe motif are used either the world or in the case of local news a sphere.

Most intros last between 7 and 10 seconds. with that in mind I have experimented with these elemnts and added the idea I had of the shadow images to create this video.

Finishing up ident work

This coming Monday we must submit our ident packages. I had a small but important break through. All of my animation ident was created using illustrator files in after effect. I could not understand why the final outputted image was so unsharp, I knew I must have been doing something wrong some ware down the line. I retraced my steps made sure that the Ai files where RGB and gave them a 300dpi setting. Still no difference it must be some thing in after effects after some internet searching I discovered that I had to check Continuously Rasterise this meant all Ai files would be sharp at any size.

Continuously Rasterise

The second thing that was a big help was to output a video with an alpha channel. This would allow me to generate my lower thirds and they could be directly played over a live image. The only draw back was that the files are uncompressed and so a few second can generate very large files.

Example of my lower third using alpha channel to drop in video.

For  my complete package I have submitted 5,10, 12, second version. I have done this by adding or subtracting locations. My flying post card has been adapted as  a coming up next and a logo to be used as a lower third. Lastly a new version of my running man.

The 10 second Bike video