Final Evaluation

Within the duration of making my animation there have been difficulties overall but I have enjoyed making the video. I started by filming the shots on castle hill of brooke. I then imported the footage into photoshop (the parts that I wanted rotoscoped) and broke down the frames to up to 15 frames per second. I then drew over each frame using bright colours to show the difference between realism and cartoon. After I did this for all of the frames i wanted rotoscoped I put them into premier. I also used un-edited footage to combine within the sequence to show the audience what was really happening.

I put all the footage into a folder named "animation" and labeled each piece of footage. I imported all of  this footage into premier.

I started in premier by putting the sound track "Explosions, cover Annushka Sims" underneath. I then saw that this gave me 2 minutes and 15 seconds. This was how much time I had to be able to piece the footage together. I wanted my video to start with long shots up to 5 seconds so i placed each shot on the timeline and used mild techniques such as putting a clip on top of another and dropping the opacity of the top clip so that the underneath clip is also seen behind. This gives the audience an impression that it is a dream as it is not realistic.

I also used still images that I had pre-rotoscoped. I did these just in case I didn't have enough successful footage. Although I did have enough film I still wanted to include these images within the video. I thought the best way to include them within my piece was to flash each image and intertwine each of the images when there was an instrumental to illustrate that the lyrics had stopped. This worked very well and showed an array of pictures which was exciting as apposed to seeing another long video which could become boring for the audience.

When all of my footage was placed on the timeline in the correct position, I then began to colour correct. I put RGB curves on each clip and moved the red, green, blue and white lines to which fitted best. I decided that I wanted most of my footage to be sepia and sun set colour so I did this to fit the theme.

Overall I think that my music video animation is very successfull. The only things I would change is that i would neaten up the time in which the frames cut. I think that when each clip cuts between each other should be more precise so that it fits the music perfectly.