Huston We Have Type in Space

Hello fellow space travelers!  For project number two, I was assigned to put 3-D type in space.  I chose one word and portrayed it two ways.  My word, passion, is portrayed throughout the clip.  At the beginning, is starts off with a women at work portraying passion for a career.  In the middle, and the bigger chunk of time, is passion for family.

I started off by picking my word.  I picked passion because it could be broad.  Everybody has a passion for something.  I started to narrow down my idea.  As a student, I have a passion for a few things.  A future career, a future family, a social life, music, food…. Well the list can keep going.  I decided to go with the two most important things I want to have after I graduate and that is a career and a family.

The women in the beginning of the video is my Mom.  She allowed me to video tape her at her small town screen print and embroidery business.  I wanted to capture a day at work.  The day to day rituals she goes through.  I chose this specific video because it shows the process of screen printing and cleaning screens is kind of a boring task.  I also loved the sounds I got while I was recording.  This is a passion for a career.

I then switch over to family.  I was lucky enough to go home for the weekend to film my family at my Aunt’s surprise 70th birthday party.  I wanted to keep my mom in the picture so I started the family scene with her, my dad, and my nephew.  Then I follow the baby around to show most of the family members.  I liked placing the word next to the baby because there were always people around him.  This is my passion for a future family.

I chose to keep the original sound at the beginning of the video because it told more of the story than drowning it out.  I switched over to a song I found on Vimeo (Greatness by Adam Selzer) to add happiness to the video.  I then match the video to the sound of the track.

I loved this project because it gave me a chance to record my family and show what is important to me in the future.  I had more fun recording my family than recording strangers.  Also type in space is hard if you don’t want people to touch it.  I found it easier to just let the type do what it wanted but keep recording because you could use it.

Life Lesson: Family is important, no matter how old you are.  Families are unique so embrace what God has blessed you with.

Projects Galore

So far on my blog, I’ve been showing you projects from one class.  I’m going to let you in on my other class as well!  I know it’s exciting!!  Right now I am working on logo design.  I have chosen to develop a logo for an organic farm and produce stores.  For my background research, I looked at organic farms and organic grocery stores.  I made a list of all their attributes and the common colors used throughout the field.  I chose to frame my company off of Earthbound Organics.  My companies attributes are local, compassion, and natural.  It was easier to think of the attributes than the name of the company.  After brainstorming for a couple of days, I chose Backyard Barn.  This project is not finished yet but so far this is what I have.  I want to apply my logo to brown paper bags, business cards/tags, and the last one is a surprise!  I have not applied them to the paper bags but pictured below are the tentative logos I will be using.  I will be posting pictures of my attempt to print on paper bags!

Paper Bag Logo

Business Card 1

Business Card 2

 

Animation Station: Stop Two

After using Premiere Pro, I moved into using After Effects.  I used most of my original videos for this project.  I did add one video and sound to this video.  Our instructor wanted us to use a clipping mask for the videos and to add text with the video.  I enjoyed this project because I was able to work with music.  I loved the challenge of making the video move to the music.  I made my music in Garage Band which was also one of the more challenging parts of the project.

For the first part of the project I made the music to work with my videos because I figured it was easier to match the videos to the beat.  Clipping and cutting the videos to match the music was pretty easy and a lot more fun.

My idea behind the video was to show how headphones isolate people.  You can be in a crowded room and be alone.  You can tune out the world with simple pieces of plastic and sound waves.  It amazes me how some people chose to purposely take themselves out of social situations.  That is what I wanted to focus on in this project.  Granted the text flying in and out of the video is kind of cheesy but I am new to After Effects so don’t laugh.  The more comfortable I get with using After Affects, the better word transitions will be.

All Aboard Animation Station

Hello Readers!  Sorry I have been MIA for, well, a while.  I am already a month in to the second semester of my Sophomore year!  Crazy how the time flew by.  I just finished up a project using Adobe Premiere Pro and I am obsessed with animation.  For this project, I had to pick an object and a word that relates to my object.  My chosen object was a pair of Beats on the ear headphones.  The word I related to it was isolation.  Now you may be thinking that isolation may not be the typical word you would pair with headphones.  Maybe music, noise, or relaxation.  I chose to go with isolation because on a college campus people always have their headphones in and it disables them from having a conversation with anyone else.  You could be in a room with 100 people and when you put on those headphones, you are instantly alone. Hence my use of isolation.  Once I had my word and object, my next task was to project the word on the object or move the object through the word.  When I designed my word, I decided to make my type red on a black background with every intention to parody the Beats colors.

When I got to editing my video in Adobe Premiere Pro, I was very cautious at first.  I just worked with clipping the videos and moving them around.  I did not work with any filters or transitions until my fourth or fifth rendition.  Once I figured out how to apply all of the affects and transitions, my video started to take shape.  This was by far my favorite project this year.  Maybe because it was new or maybe because animation is something I really enjoy.  I guess I’ll find out with this next project when I start using Adobe After Effects.  So exciting!!