James & The Giant Peach
To conclude my introduction to After Effects, I finally placed together my frames from Photoshop into After Effects, a software I was completely new to.
The introduction to the software proved quite time consuming as I'm quite used to using Photoshop and image editing software, the comparision between the two was hugely different to what I was used to. Although I've experimented on Premire Pro, Movie Maker before, a lot of this was trial and error, as seen in my video.
My overall reflection of the video I created was that as the video progresses, it does develop in skill. My expectations of myself, and thus the video, meant I was required to Google search a lot of the steps needed to progress in the video. An example of this can be seen in the "a novel" section - I wanted the transaction between frames to be smoother and at a quicker frame rate, so I took about learning how to use effects (CC Wipe etc) on my own and how to apply them. This also granted me access to a lot of shortcuts, such as pressing "T" to view Opacity levels on each frame.
This took an incredibly long time to do, as we also had to get to grips with completely new software and produce a ten second video with audio. I obtained audio from the Youtube Audio Library, which provides free copyright audio; I sifted through to more positive/upbeat audio to reflect the novel and it's upbeat pace.
The video itself I'm not entirely happy with, however for the first attempt I feel I've learnt a lot from researching and listening to Sara. It's not 100% perfect, with particular focus on at the end, but I also took a lot away from the session and introduced myself to After Effects.
