Unit 64: Motion graphics and compositing, Task 2 & 3

Blog for the making of motion graphics video

I have been through the brief and I looked at what the brief contains. The brief is to do a start of a video about an era of pop called Hits: The history of pop. I haven’t gave this assignment much thought until now and I have the problem that it isn’t my imagination that’s the problem, it the fact that my abilities are close to none existent but I will soldier on. The era given to me is the 70s which I will gather my materials such as pictures and videos once I’ve got my script.

I have thought of some ideas about what to create and I also have done a storyboard for my opening titles and they seem fairly simple, so much so that I feel I can create them fairly easily. I have done a sort of report for what I want my video to look like and I think that it (like my titles) falls into my ability ring. I’ve have got my script and I also have my ideas for my title and I did a read though to make sure it sounded ok.

We did need to consider the legal and ethical side of this project as it wouldn’t be posted anywhere online so no copyright laws would be broken. Although much of the content I needed was on YouTube and the images would be gathered of google images.

My storyboard and script were completed fairly quickly because once I had my research then it became easier to make the script and to put it all together. I began filming soon after it was finished and the filming went well with nothing wrong and I didn’t need to re-film. My drawing abilities let me down when it came to making the storyboards and to make the title.

I have planned when I’ll be filming and I aim to get the edit done as soon as possible but in the meantime I’m going to practise several different ways of doing my opening title sequence. I have used many different techniques to make my motion graphics piece an entertaining watch to the viewer including moving myself around the screen.

 

 I also put pictures at the side of the screen that would relate to what I'm talking about.

 



I used Adobe premiere pro, After effects and encore to make my 3 minute film and I used premier pro as a base for my graphical operation.

Task 3

Review

I feel that given my abilities that this project went well almost better than I had hoped. I will start with my title sequence and that fact that my first drawings of my titles looked similar to that actual thing that I had created. My storyboards looked similar to although there were changes and I had never expected my finished project to look exactly like the thing that I had originally thought off.

Using after effects is not my strong point and I think that this comes across in this work and I feel that the work reflects this. My background choice is a bit odd but I wanted something with a 70’s look to it and that was bright and that caught the eye of the viewer, although the word funk train is in the corner I feel that it adds more ‘70sness’ to the video.

A well as the music I’ve used I also got news stories and a film. The news stories that I have chosen to use were; the death of Elvis, the Beatles break up and the reunification of Vietnam. I used pictures from Google and from YouTube especially for the songs which are copyright protected.

Things I feel that I could have done better on are things such as the graphics that I actually used and the actual things that I referenced from the decade such as news stories and other music. I feel that could have moved myself around the screen a bit more and made myself more animated to make the video better to watch. I also wish that I was better at doing the title sequence better because then I’d have a better video in all.

Things I did well were; the title sequence although I wish that I’d done it better I still feel that it is at a basic level at least a motion graphics piece of work because it moves and there are titles and it has a soundtrack underneath and that gives it more to focus on. I feel that my deliverance was better than most and my videos and pictures mixed well with the work that I did. The script was well written and the lighting was set up just right to make it look good and I had no problems with shadows.