Logo animation

I am happy with my initial WestView High School emblem (pictured below) which I made on AutoDesk Graphic iPad application in quite a short space of time. I will follow this tutorial (embeded below) on Adobe's After Effects in order for my WestView High School's logo to shatter like this. I find After Effects a difficult software to use so am apprehensive to see how this turns out. I also will be doing this from home and as I do not have an Adobe subscription will be doing it with the Creative Cloud trial, this means I need to complete and export it within 7 days. 

6 hours of work later! Here's my 6 second logo animation, this will feature in the trailer the the viewers are aware of the School's (and program's) name and the logo. The YouTube tutorial wasn't that difficult to follow in the end but as I did not go at the same pace as the filmer of the video, it involved a lot of pausing it to keep up. The filmer was also working from an older version of After Effects so some buttons were positioned slightly differently making it slightly more difficult to follow.



Reflective comment:
I am very proud of how my logo animation turned out although it was a very headache-causing, time consuming task but it is done now! I think it looks quite professional and works well allowing the viewer enough time to see the final logo. If I were to do it again I would make sure the original JPG of my logo to edit on After Effects had the scale of the whole screen to that the left side doesn't have a cut off line, however this is quite a small issue and would not be worth redoing it all just for that.

Ancillary Tasks focus

Focus on your ancillary tasks. Have a look at the site below for some inspiration for typography within posters.

Posters for Soap Operas are rare, this will make research difficult. However TV listings magazines are common, there are a few that all feature EastEnders story lines.These feature kidnap, killers/murders, and confessions, all of these are criminal acts but some sometimes feature affairs and love triangles. The title on the TV listings magazine needs to do have no more than 4 words that instantly tells the viewer the act/crime but also grabs their attention and makes them take not of the magazine. All are bold colours that many clash together, this again attracts the audience's eye and fits with the conventions of TV listings magazines.

Earlier in the year I made this template for my TV listings magazine, I plan to follow this format as it is conventional for other listings magazines such as What's On TV, TV Quick, TV Choice and TV Pick. 

Short Clips to Break it Up

To break up the trailer so it isn't person shouting at someone to person shouting at someone, I thought I could film a few seconds long short clips of common school/sixth form life that can break up the trailer a little bit. All of these will be put in reverse too so it fits with the rest of the trailer. One of these could be a the use of a vending machine. I filmed this with Victoria Semineo (one of my peers). She used the Sixth Form vending machine to get a drink. I edited this on iMovie to crop it to a few seconds long, sped up certain bits, slowed down certain bits and to put all of it in reverse.



Others of these I could use are a pencil writing on some typically lined paper to show the school environment, someone kicking a football as that frequently happens in frees and lunch times and would look effective in reserve or just someone tucking in their school chair as that would be easy to film. But obviously I probably don't want more than about 2 of these break ups as it's predominately a trailer to show the drama.

Sorry Ms Moore

The posts I had started were in my Google Docs drafts not my Blogger drafts! My mistake - sorry!

I am aware 20th (tomorrow) is the deadline is the 20th I obviously have not met this but will keep trying to catch up to get it done as soon as possible.