Friday, 27 November 2009

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..

Thursday, 26 November 2009

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.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

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

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

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