Week 4 Studio B

This video is the hardest exercise up to date. It's very tedious to do and I spent around 1 week plus to complete it. It requires a lot of different techniques to do this video. I will just explain some of the front parts I did for this video.

 First, we type out the words and fit it according to the audio. The timing is crucial for this part, as we want to make it look like as if when the audio, example "water" comes out, the word water will appear as well. So we have to match the words to the audio. 

After this, we changed our font to BlaxSlabXXL and change the font size. As originally, all the font size is the same but at some certain part of the video, the words are small while some others the words are large as different size of the font give off a different impression as well.

 For each word, it is in it own layer so for those words that are in the same page, we select them and click on Layer -> Pre-Compose to place them all in a single layer. For example, for the first part of the video the words are “Empty your mind” after we Pre-Compose all the 3 words in a single layer, if at the later point of the video, we need to edit one of the words, we can click on the Pre-compose layer and it will open up the individual layer which we did before we combine them into a single layer. 

Then, we carry on by importing the needed images to After Effect. As the images are not provided in Olive so we have to create our own ones. At first, I tried to Google similar images but it is not successfully as most images have the copyright trademark on it and also, I wanted to have the exactly same images as like the video. Hence, I decided to screenshot the different images of the video and edit it a Photoshop. In Photoshop, I removed the background by using the background easer tool and just save it as png format and import to After Effect. 

Next, we change the position of the words as some words enter in from left to right while some others enter by down to up. So to achieve that, we mask the selected words and change the position of the words as well. There are a lot more steps that I had done to complete this video and if I have to list the steps here, it will be a very long post so I will just stop here. 

To conclude, this exercise is extremely challenging and require a lot of time to complete it. So we have to take note of our time management so we will be able to complete it by the dateline. Even though, it is challenging, it taught me a lot of techniques in After Effect which will be beneficial for my MGE project!