After Effects is the software used to make edits on the video and add different effects to the film to give it more creativity. The task that was given was to add an introduction to the video that was provided, adding a background and making the video have the person on the screen appear twice like they are talking to each other. Firstly starting with the video it is shot on a green screen so add the background layer onto it and then proceed to delete the green screen so the background layer shows. Furthermore with the video duplicate it and for the first video track keep the start but delete the rest once he first leaves the screen. Then with the second video track edit out the start until the man comes back into the frame again so fits in the sequence and looks natural. This part is simple once you know what you are doing, it just takes a little bit of time to learn what does what. The effect that is created with the video turns out really good because it is so different to the normal look of video and a really cool effect. The next part would be doing the introduction, this is just adding a block colour and then adding a title; with the title you will have to add an effect of any kind, this is found on the side panel on effects and there is many to choose from and some are better than others but it is easy to add just need to find the right one, that is nice and doesn’t look silly. In similar fashion with the background in the video you have to add effects to it so it looks nice and creative rather than just a standard background, the way to add affects to this is the same place as the effects for the words used at the start of the video; again there are so many effects to choose from so it is important to test a few out because finding the best one is essential to make your piece of work the best it can be. Additionally the main part of the task was to place the video so it looks like it is playing off of a mobile phone, this bit is tricky because you cant just resize the video because it doesn’t look flush with the phone screen; so you need to transform the video layer so it is over the phone screen and flat against the phone screen so it looks just like it is being played on the phone. Finally adding the subtitles, this is done by adding the sentence that is said in the timeline when it is said so the viewer is able to know what is said at what time. There was not many problems that occurred with this project apart from editing the effects instructions was a bit tricky to get them all right.
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