Before this project I had more knowledge of After Effects than I did of Premiere, having had a workshop on it earlier in the semester. In the workshop and my own independent study I was able to create some simple animations and was happy with the progress. However, After Effects is a more complicated and extensive software so there is plenty of basics still to learn and hopefully I can learn some more specific and advanced skills.
Thanks to having João join the project we were able to achieve more advanced and technical editing than I could have achieved on my own. I think particularly during our After Effects sessions we had a really good working relationship as we where able to continually develop on each others ideas which really helped us advance the editing beyond our original plans. On here we did lots of work with the title, outro sequence, fire, smoke and movement lines. One particular tool that I learnt a lot about was masking. In several sequences we drew and animated masks using key framing. The scene that has the editing I’m most proud of is scene 2, the battle scene. It has colour correction, zooms, fire, glow, movement lines and masking. Below is a photo of our work on After Effects:
This is how the video looked by the end of our 2 sessions of After Effects:
From this video there wasn’t any corrections we felt needed to be made so we can take this straight to Adobe Audition and start working on the final part, the audio.
Samuel Green Illustration 