For my 10 second video clip I wanted to use recognisable characters in order for this fast pasted, short video to be instantly linked to the film in which it is intended. Above shows my own drawings of main characters from the film 'finding memo', these were done using a fine liner pen on sketchbook paper. In order to replicate the images, I used images found on a search engine, but drew these free-hand without tracing or printing. These were then scanned in and added to psd, Photoshop files. Each on a separate file I was able to add colour or modify the drawings where needed. On the illustration of Nemo and of Dory, the eyes in particular needed slight adjustment, to align and look positioned correctly on the face. The colour was added using the magic wand selection tool and the paint brush. The background was also removed using the erase tool.
Below are the coloured illustrations added to a 'sea' background also created by myself on Photoshop. The text was also added on this software and positioned similarly across them all.
The timeline of frames is shown below. They were created on HD dimensions of 1080 and 720. Each has a constant background of the sea, and a consistent typeface across all. The aim is to have a message presented across each frame, with the pictures incorporated in to the summed up story. The files here are jpg ones.
In aftereffects we started a new composition and set the dimensions and background to transparent. The first thing we did was add an audio file, this can be seen once drag din to the bottom timeline box. It was dragged and adjusted in order to have the sound commencing at the same time as the motion. It can be seen in this screen image.
Next we used the keyboard shortcut of an (*) when listening to the audio in order to mark points in the music in which are distinguishable like a beat or a significant change.
From this we then added solid new layers of varying colours to start at each sound marker. These were positioned by dragging the solid bars along the timeline section.
This is shown here.
Then these colour blocks were replaced by my own jpg images. These were added to the left column and separated dragged- while holding the alt key- in to the bottom timeline on to each frame. These were then adjusted so that each had a suitable time in-between and the message was clearly readable.
Here is my finished composition, with the audio and jpeg images animated. I think the mix of text and images makes it easy to interpret and breaks up the stream of text.
To get these mov. files the after effects projects were rendered to the desktop, and then from there these were opened using QuickTime and then exported as 720p file externally.
