possible track (beginning for idents)

Going the distance

Mr scruff. Possible sound track.

Stop procrastinating

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Audio

Been looking this week for an audio track which suits the audience and the theme.  Although there are a few oppurtunities with actual songs I think it would be better to have a lyric-less track.
Really struggling to find this but THE PLAN IS TO HAVE IT BY FRDAY.

CBBC and CiTV i-dents

Plant life under the sea

I want to create some plants for the scenes to again add depth of field.  There are so many different elements, so much going on whenever there is an underwater image so I really need to capture this in my work. This will also add colour, new shapes. a bit of everything no doubt.

Typography and Paper

Although these are mainly Print based I just wanted to look around at ways of making things out of paper and also for various typographic layouts.

I could easily transfer something like this into an animated format.

Paper seems to add a lovely aesthetic and so would work really well on screen as it is something a little different to usual.

Sea Creatures

sea life

mike flower - After Effects session5

AUDIO!
Find sound effects etc on the internet. Royalty free Audio - free downloadable sounds.
Appropriate file formats. AIFF mac standard audio file format.
WAV - pc
MP3
Don't use flac/m4a files. convert to one of others.
file>import>choose file. drag into composition.
Equivalant layer properties when working with Audio. (no transform properties)
'audio level' -volume of audio. (works with key frames)
'0' does not mean no sound - just how it would be played without changing settings.

GROUPING

Parent/child relationship. Layers are attached to other layers by selecting 'parent' on the main layer.

Nesting

After Effects session 4

Presets and effects.
Select from Right hand of screen. Can be altered within the composition/layer info. Similarly to when you create the layer for yourself.




Settings within layers.
hide layer, constantly rasterise, Quality(slash). (icons in bar of layer.)
Smoothing out, motion blur, Adjustment layer.

Title Sequences

Text within after Effects

Not text as image.
2 options to create text.
Layer>new>Text
'T' tool in tool bar. click onto composition window.. and type.
To change character info window>character.

Every box of text typed will exist as one layer.

What is different?
Anchor point not in centre of text. To change press 'A' shows anchor point details. -not most efficient.
Pan behind tool. Able to drag and move anchor point to where ever wanted.

text specific Layer properties.
- Source text. (stop watch shows it is something which can change over time, no numbers etc next to it so different to other properties.) It allows you to animate text over time.

Animate... Position. Adds animator 1,Range selector 1 and position.
by adjusting position tab - anchor point does not move, just the contents of the layer.
you do NOt have to add key frames to position property.

Use range selector to animate individual letters.... to move from one place to another.

Animating opacity-

Animating Scale - Each letter seems to have its own anchor point. start end... as usual.
Advanced options - character. Can change this to per word/per sentence. etc but currently set to character.
More options>anchor Point grouping>word - this means that although independantly moving each character has the same anchor point.
If you change anchor point grouping to 'all' representation of anchor point moved to centre.

Layer Mask - New solid layer. Size of composition.

when you add a shape to a layer it is called a mask.. which is as though you are looking through a key hole. this is a way to gradually show the layer y using another solid.

Kinetic Typography - Idiocracy from Nathan Campbell on Vimeo.

I think I chose this mainly for the colours and some layout used within the frame. When the type stands on its edge and then falls into place. I like the way just 2 fonts are used.. one for each voice.. the timid-ness of the person replying and the boldness and authority of the computer/telephone automated voice.

The background is also something different to just using white which is interesting. Could consider white type on a coloured background?