After Effects: Puppets

Today we had to use after effects to make a still image move. This was really good for me to learn how to do as it will be really usefully when it comes to adding animation to our documentary.

After Effects: Green Screen

Today we had the chance to work with green screen again but this time it was just to help us understand how to edit it better rather than actually standing in front of the camera ourselves. Instead of using Final Cut to extract all of the green we used After Effects and we had alot better results.

With this one we learnt how to extract the green from a clip where the subject was moving.



As the subject in this clip has a lot of hair it was difficult to extract all the green but we learnt a few skills to help us with this.




With this clip we had to extract green from a clip where you could see the edges of the green screen. we had to crop around them and then extract the green.

After Effects

This week we have quite a few work shops on how to use After Effects. After Effects is a piece of software which allows you to add graphics and movement to your pictures and clips.

The first workshop we had we were just leaning how to use the basics and this is what I made.

On our second day of the workshop we played around with how to make the text look like it had been written as well as other movements and this is what I came up with.