Major Project is Done!

Major Project

Mine and Maddie's Twin project is well under way now we have filmed 2 episodes already and we are scheduled to film our final episode on Friday and then we will be filming our expert the following Monday. 

We are going to need to write a script for our expert or give him topics to talk about so that we get the information from him which we need.

Everything seems to be coming together at the moment and all of the footage looks really good it is just a matter of editing it all together.

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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.

Green Screen Practise

Today we had a work shop on how to use green screen. It was really interesting and we all go the chance to be filmed in front of the green screen and then edit our clip ourselves by taking out the green and adding a relevant background.

Here is what I came up with.

Major Project Update

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Mine and Maddie's major project is well under way now we have secured an expert to give some psychological input into our documentary and we have also arranged to film our first set of twins this Sunday. We are still liaising with the Mac Twins manager and they still seem keen to do it but they are quite busy at the moment to it is just fitting in with them and we have almost got our 3rd set of twins sorted.

We have done so much work for this project we just hope that it turns out the way we want it to. As it is going to be quite "Youtubey" we want it have lots of graphics. We are hoping that after we have had our After Effects workshops that we will be able to make these graphics ourselves but if we can't then we are going to have to commission someone to help us but luckily for us we go to a creative arts uni and so I'm sure we won't have trouble finding someone to help us.