Reborn Identity

I am really enjoying working on this sequence now. I started the sequence with the "20th century logo" to give the sequence a realistic touch. The only thing I did not manage to fix was the moving light. The logo has spotlights which normally move around but as I did not manage to do so, I decided to apply another effect. I made the picture lookfoggy so the fact that the lights do not move around does not look very obvious. The logo appears and fades out slowely and then the text starts.

First text I put in is: Unile Productions- which is a made up name, just like every other name I will be putting in the sequence

Unile Productions simply fades in and out and the background which I posted up previously fades in and out at the same time as the text

Next name: "DMG Productions" appears with an effect called "Typewriter" which according to me makes it look quite professional. First I tried to create a frame for each letter and keep a second gap in it - so it would give the text the typewriter effect- but soon enough I found the effect as a set effect which made it look more neat and accurate.

New Ideas for Project 2

After spending a lot of time working on Hitler's movie's Title Sequence I really got fed up with the topic and realised I would want to do something more light hearted and fun and not rather depressing. I know I have spent quite some time on it but I am willing to change it and invest time in something that will look more interesting. I have thought about producing a sequence that can include a lot of effects and which has a simple yet interesting touch to it. I had a look at a few title film sequences and liked the idea playing with the writing more than the background, therefore I would like to keep a simple background- something that just fades in and out after every frame and concentrate myself one text- which is more important in a title film sequence anyway.

I want to produce a Title Film Sequence for a Spy film called "Reborn Identity" which reminds everyone of "The Bourne Identity" perhaphs and suggests the genre which Spy Film. It should all have a metallic and "new/modern" look.

I want to use the following colours in it: grey, black, white and a little bit of red

Project 2 continued

I have spent 3 hours today to make the Hitler Film Sequence look interesting, which has been quite a challenge as the topic itself does not interest everyone and therefore needs a lot of interesting effects and things to light up the topic, which again would be inappropriate at the topic is something very serious and putting in a lot of "funky" effects would not go with the theme.

What exactly I tried was to put in a text at the beginning saying:

"Arbeit macht frei" - Work brings freedom

and after that message pops up and fades out slowely a picture of Hitler's face appears..and this is where I would like to add a soundtrack

After Hitler's faces dissappears I added "a movie about Hitler's rise in Germany" which again fades out and the video starts to play in the background while the titles appear..

Now I tried to put in some effects to make it look more interesting: this is where I am having problems- A title sequence about a serious historical movie would not have any interesting effects..

I have now put together the images from my last post in After Effects and realised it would better to put in a video which I came across while doing my research:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TezG916GDbc

In class I managed to do so with Fleeta's Help. We downloaded Firefox in order to download the youtube video and put it into After Effects which was a bit of a long proccess.

I was quite satisfied with the end result of the video being displayed as my background after fading it out a little bit.

Images I want to add in my Sequence:

http://www.oppisworld.de/zeit/national/naghetto.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/01776/images/hitler460.jpg

http://www.schule-bw.de/unterricht/

http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.history.data.jpg/35506.jpg

Project 2 difficulties

The idea mentioned before does not seem realistic to me anymore. I have been trying to find the time to ask friends who are ready to shoot and also organising a camera, it all seems very time consuming so I am reconsidering my idea

New ideas: movie about something historical, e.g: hitler

Introduction of Project number 2: TITLE FILM SEQUENCE

After completing my Banner I started working on the second project which is to produce a Title Film Sequence.

First Ideas: have a short video (30 secs) of two friends: laughing, walking, talking, eating etc etc

The movie: romantic comedy, story of two best friends and their love lifes..

Theme: light hearted song, use of simple effects, not very speedy, video should be the most interesting part about the sequence.

How do I start? Find to people who are willing to act in the video and find a good video camera

Screenshots to be continued:

Brush Strokes Effect when the name first fades in

Fading it of the clear image with the name of the brand

Brush Strokes Effect for J'adore- the name of the new fragrance

Fading in of the clearer version with fading in of the bottle


"Now Available Worldwide" appears - END of the banner

Screenshots of the final Project 1:

Beginning of the Banner: autumn leaves which then fade out a bit

Beginning of the Text: THIS AUTUMN with the faded background

Text continued with a flash in - flash out effect:


Text continues..

Text continues..


Last Text of the same style

Ending of my banner

Having a look at it again, it seems to me that the ending does not look good enough. I tried to add something to it and this is my idea: a text saying "NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE" which should appear next to the bottle and the name of the bottle so it sends out a message to the people looking at the banner.

NOW
AVAILABLE
WORLDWIDE!!!

For this text I have used a "fill in" effect to make it more shiny

Web banner continued

In my previous post I mentioned what I had done so far

Now I have added the ending of the banner which includes the name of the new fragrance and the bottle:

"J'Adore"

I have used the golden font for the name as I am producing an ad for an existing brand and fragrance, therefor keeping the design and colour the same seems important to me.

Inserting the bottle into a horizontal banner was a bit challenging as it can easily end up looking like a random shape. I tried out a few images until I found this one which has a really qood quality therefore looks like an obvious bottle. I hope one can recognize the bottle in the banner.