Week 8 Tutorial Exercises

Motion Tracking

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

Two tasks this week. The first task was to pin some text onto a Creative Industries building in the source footage. While I managed to get the text to fit in, somewhat, I could not eliminate the jitter completely.

The second task was to corner pin a screenshot to a screen in some footage. This one went a little better, probably because I went through frame by frame (twice) and adjusted the corners to stop the screenshot from jittering too much. I used motion blur and lowered the opacity to make the screenshot fit into the scene a little better.

I hope working with low quality footage is not standard practice, it seems time consuming.

Attributions go to the unidentified cameraman that shot the footage, I suppose.

Week 7 Tutorial Exercises

Audio Keyframes

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

The task was to animate using audio keyframes. Besides that, there was no specific goal, so I thought that it could perhaps be a little silly, to match the audio.

I used the same character twice and made them move slightly differently. (I also changed the shirt colour to red on one, just to make them different.)

I used the graph editor quite a bit to amplify the motion in the audio keyframes. I also used the pickwhip to make some expressions and then changed them slightly, particularly with the position frames, so the characters would be centred instead of off in a corner.

I quite like the end result.

I wonder if a similar method is used for the windows media player's visualisations...

Royalty Free Audio:

Super Polka - http://music.incompetech.com/royalty-free/Super%20Polka.mp3

Attribution:

mikebaird - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2678307443/sizes/o/

Week 6 Tutorial Exercises

Temporal Graffiti

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

The task was to animate some graffiti appearing on the supplied background.

I liked this task, it used things that I am familiar with, like colour correction and layer modes, so I did not have to spend too much time trying to learn new things before I could get started.

I tried to scale and rotate the images to make the graffiti fit into the background. I also tried to animate the three pieces of graffiti in a slightly different way.

I do not really have much more to say, the composition was only four seconds long, after all. Although, I am glad that I now know how various clips and things that I have seen achieve the graffiti being sprayed onto a wall effect.

Alphabetical Attributions:

Anyone Anywhere - http://www.flickr.com/photos/anyone_anywhere/4846018875/sizes/l/in/photostream/

salim - http://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/3726978/sizes/l/in/photostream/

salim - http://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/9039417/sizes/l/in/photostream/

salim - http://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/112475320/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Week 5 Tutorial Exercises

Kinetic Typography

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

The task was to use text, text presets and the 3D camera in conjunction with the supplied audio to get a message across.

It did not go well. We will call the end result 'abstract' instead of bad, shall we?

So, I managed to get the 3D camera working with a 3D text layer which used an animation preset, but getting other images to work with the layer did not work well at all. Some images ended up warped beyond recognition when I tried to include them as 3D layers due to the scaling required. So instead, I kept the images as 2D layers and made a sort of montage to the audio, including some 3D text here and there.

I suppose, practice makes perfect?

Audio:

Civil Defense film - Duck and Cover,1951.

(http://www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951)

Alphabetical Attributions:

anarchosyn - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/2707596343/sizes/l/

earthhopper - http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthhopper/31551712/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Éole - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/2342256254/sizes/o/

gamp - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamp/1345487054/sizes/l/in/photostream/

joiseyshowaa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joiseyshowaa/1400175456/sizes/o/in/photostream/

spiegel - http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiegel/8866764/sizes/o/in/photostream/

tidewatermuse - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tidewatermuse/38963406/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Week 4 Tutorial Exercises

Temporal and Spatial Montage – Retail Client Brief

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

This week the task was to create a twenty second ad according to a client brief, essentially. We were given a logo and colour scheme to work with.

I suppose my end result was influenced by watching sale ads for supermarkets and things. There's often spiky bubbles spinning around or text seemingly slamming into the screen while someone with a suspiciously upbeat voice shouts about prices and just how low they are.

I masked some images of possible products and tried to make them look 'mad' when displaying the prices. I expect it would be even more mad with some kind of soundtrack, perhaps something with a tuba or an accordion. I also kept to the purple, red and white colour scheme.

I was not particularly sure how to aim this at a wide demographic. Most people under a certain age are unlikely to be interested in crazy prices on blenders and toasters. (Including myself. We could do with crazy prices on kettles though, ours is leaking.)

Alphabetical Attributions:

alberth2:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alberth2/3043057545/sizes/l/in/photostream/

healthserviceglasses:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/healthserviceglasses/3256234213/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Niels van Eck:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nielsvaneck/275378733/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Week 3 Tutorial Exercises

Temporal and Spatial Montage

Jessica Cupitt (n7542399)

This week we were still cutting images out and placing them into a background, but this time we were using masks in After Effects. After masking the many images, we were to make them jump up from behind the wall while trying to convey a feeling of weight.

The result is a little iffy (and very low quality; not a lot of RAM, internet connection at home is less than fantastic), but then, most people jumping move more than a still image.

I again tried to keep the light source somewhat consistent. I also tried to scale the images of the people so they appeared to be in perspective dependant on their location within the image. I believe the task description calls it a spatial relationship, but I am used to refering to it as perspective.

I thought just having a lot of people (and one dog) jumping up and down behind a wall would be a bit dull, so I tried to move them around a bit to keep things interesting.

The masking took a long time, in the end I decided to mask most of the images with a series of short, straight lines rather than fiddling with a lot of Bezier handles. I may have applied a motion blur and used ease in and ease out on some frames to make the motion seem smoother. Although, I am a little wary of using ease out at the end of a jump, since gravity does not generally let people down easily when they are hitting the ground.

Alphabetical Attributions:

anarchosyn:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/2707596343/sizes/l/

anirudhkoul:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anirudhkoul/2523651888/sizes/l/

Éole:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/3306193932/sizes/o/

Éole:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/2342256254/sizes/o/

jumpinglab:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jumpinglab/2633227714/sizes/l/

mikebaird:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2678307443/sizes/o/