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This week I began to create the animatic for the video explaining about my rigged bird character "Chuck". It began with me refining my script down to what I and my Professor thought to be the most beneficial for me to explain, as well as any visuals that would compliment the structure. As well as making the script, I also refined some storyboards that had been compiled from my initial script layouts. I also began to download video clips and images of inspirational sources and opened After Effects to create and section out my video. I ended with finishing the animatic and getting the timing of certain aspects to make sense when they needed to be on screen. Although my first draft of my animatic is finished, I think there is still room to change and make it better. After reviewing my video, something also happened to the audio playback as it happened to become abnormally quiet. I'm not sure if there was a difference when I was listening under headphones, as I could hear it clearly. This will obviously have to change, as my audience will not have a clue what I am talking about if they can only see visuals and not audio. Choices Made: For the audio, I made the choice to initially use Adobe Audition as my source of recording software. After finding out that it would only record in Mono format, I tried changing the settings to have it come out of both channels. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to have it come in both channels without having the audio sound scratchy and metallic. I consulted other classmates; one suggested Audacity but ended in the same result. Two others suggested using a different mic similar to a Tascam handheld recorder, but it ultimately ended with only one channel again. After fiddling with the programs for a good hour, I just stuck with the already plugged in recorder (handheld) and moved forward. As I finished the recording, I went back through in Audition's capable sound editing and clipped out the sections that I jumbled or messed up. The end audio was about 3.5 minutes long, and I realized after cleaning up the audio that I had sounded extremely fast when I was speaking. This coupled with the slower visuals conclusively made the video droll and slow in my opinion, but could still be used as a jumping off point to continue editing the video. Inspirational Sources: For this weeks video, most of the inspirational sources I used were from Youtube tutorial videos such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp3NK7TMMzw -A video for what is the best style to show your for your business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wmiS2mSXY -A video example of how to condense complicated information into more understandable content. and the ones provided from our professor that showed products on Kickstarter and Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/160493174 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/489540660/designercise-a-creative-thinking-game-and-ideation I like the idea of using motion graphics and making the video itself look appealing to an audience, but also not too showy that it detracts from the explanation. I want it to look minimal but also engaging. Questions Raised & Needs: This week raised many questions regarding how I would create the video and how it would be edited. Mainly what I asked my myself was:
Next Steps: Some next steps I that I have realized is I need to focus more on this project, and less on creating content for other classes. I'm not sure how this is going to work out, as I don't want one class to suffer for the other, nor do I want to treat one professor over the other as more important. Another step I need to do is find someone who knows how to use the Audio room. As I haven't a clue who to ask. Or I should go online and find a tutorial for how to properly set up Adobe Audition. I also need to make the school install DUIK and other software that is relevant to my studies. As what is currently installed does not work and doesn't seem to install correctly when I try. -Taylor Olsen Comments are closed.
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