After Effects
Today we were inducted on the basics for using the software Adobe After Effects, we got to grips with how to use green-screen tool (known as chromakeying), making the footage the top layer and adjusting the background footage, additional touches were made to the colours of the footage using colour correction, keying out the green-screen backdrop by using the magnifying tool and clicking in the green space to make the image appear in - front.
We started to layer the images on top of each other, playing around with the opacity and adding different effects to the image i.e. fill, keying, matte adjusting etc. Once the layers had been duplicated we started to play around with their positioning, I wanted to move the bottom layer of the footage behind the top, darken the characters outline so that his shadow projected onto the wall.
In the lesson Joshua was talking about the creation of cinema graphs, I asked him for some help towards learning how to create cinema graphs, I have wanted to learn to create gifs and cinematography for quite a long time, I have always had an interest in creating an image where everything is frozen apart from a space that has been masked over.
Towards the end of the session I had started to create two individual after effects films, I was able to use the masking tool efficiently, be able to layer footage on top of each other, would have liked to have explored the possibility of using sound design to add a background noise to the demo video that we created, the sounds would help to bring the visuals alive and add to the decrepit feel of the underneath world
Here is one of the videos that we created in class.
The Man and his Shadow
The Man and his Shadow (Adobe After Effects). from Luke Curno on Vimeo.
Here is the sheep example that I created, going back to the idea of looping different parts of video within adobe after effects.
Created using Adobe After Effects
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