Our next After Effects workshop was on the focus of typography. The brief was to bring in a font and information regarding the font; I selected Coolvetica, a spin on the font 'Helvetica', which is more rounded than the original.
My focus was to try to be creative with my simple font, I chose to create an effect where the font looked as if it was being typed out simultaneously on the video - this was created by me manually changing the timing on each letter and moving the line along to create the effect of someone typing. Although it was a little tedious, I think the effect of the typing worked really well, it can also be improved by adding audio of someone typing along to it.
The next thing we were taught upon was to change the way the text transitioned in the beginning. Through using the CTRL button we were able to easily navigate around the time line, and using the position tool (by holding 'P') able to create time stamps of where the text would come from. By changing the position along the timeline, I could make the text sort of fly in different directions, which I did different ways for different effects.
By having it come in different ways for the '1970' text, it created the appearance of "rolling in" - additionally, by using effects on the movement, such as blurring, it made the effect look like it was coming in more quicker and helped to support the rolling appearance.
From being my first attempt I'm quite pleased with how professional it looks, particularly with the font I chose and being able to learn heaps about text transitions that are quite easy to do. If I'd have gone back to improve, I would have made more complicated effects and made it look more visually interesting by improving the textures/background. Overall this session was really interesting for me and I learned a lot, despite taking an hour to work on my own thing.
