This process and production session was a lot more relaxed than previous ones, owing to the fact that I'd learned so much about After Effects in my spare time, and could easily mess around with the tools on my own. I'd prepped a lot of work before hand and played around with shapes/strokes and effects, similar to my Shape Workshop, and incorporated bits we've been told to do in the lesson.
My aim was to make something that was very me-like, and although I'm not girly in the slightest, my website at the moment currently is yellow themed, so I stuck to my signature "colour" as such and incorporated pinks in to make the yellow pop. Owing to Sara's teaching I also added in things I'd learned from previous workshops, like CC Page Turn or using stroke's in different ways.
I'd still say I was a novice at After Effects, I had to sit patiently and work around how I wanted something to be achieved slowly and it did take me a while to perfect anything, however I felt so much more comfortable in the programme then I'd ever previously had before.
Ideas came from the fact that a lot of the information may not be aesthetically pleasing, so my idea was to make it stand out and pop with the use of colour, motion and texture, adding them to give depth to the piece, and sort of more of a rustic feel. One thing Sara suggested would be to consider pacing in my work, as a lot of it is extremely fast paced and doesn't allow the audience to absorb the information quite as well as I'd have liked, and I agree.
The process for creating my work is simple, which is to mess around until I'm happy with the outcome. I still have a lot to learn with the software but found it increasingly easier to navigate around, I knew how most things worked but was still coming to grips with how to make certains things to what.
I was really pleased with the outcome and would love to continue creating it, maybe as an introduction to my about page for my webite (I'd also have to change the location of Manchester, too!)
