Final Movie. Positives and negatives

Here's a youtube video of my FInal piece, I'll explain developments as I go on.



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First of all you may notice there's a white border around it. I placed this in as it makes the piece look more complete. It seems to work well with the style. I thinks it makes it look more polished.

The First Scene

This I had to play with alot, to make sure the voice sinked with his mouth, I think this worked well eventually. This scene reminds me particulary of the old sci fi films I looked up in my research.

The second scene

This was done using shapes that I created in Illustrator at first they looked a bit bland so I added glows to them, earth itself was was quite tricky to get to work.
I lik how I faded the first scene into the second as it seems to make it flow more and make the narration seem more prominent. The Space craft was edited along a path and made smaller as it went along to earth, to give the illusion it was traveling.
The stars shrink and grow repeatedly to give the illusion that they're buzzing with light. I did this by making one of them do the action and then using it as a parent to the other layers.

he third scene

This is where the alien takes the camera, at first it didn't look much like an Alien, just a guy with a scarf over his face. So I had to key in some alien eyes which were black speres with a motion blur. I had to do this frame by frame and make sure they moved with his head, I seemed to get it quite right, this is a timely procedure. I like the way this scene looks, but I think the Alien could look more alien, but I'd need more time for this. I think it lives up to the slapstick nature of Sci fi in general like what I researched.


The last scene

Again in this scene I had to key in the eye, but it takes time which I've been running out of. So the eye seems to jerk a bit unnecessarily which I'm not to pleased with. I created a shape layer in the Tv to manipulate the area. I shrunk the first seen of the announcer to fit the TV and then flicked it to the sci fi channel logo as the remote was raised to highest point, this was so that it would look more realistic. Maybe I should of included an effect as the alien changed the channel. I don't think the timing is just right there could be more emphasis on the sci-fi logo , maybe it should of been made much larger.

The Music

I was rather pleased with the synth soundtrack which I created, I like how it builds up and winds down slowly, I made sure it fit the scene changes (the tempo corresponding). The voice over could be bettered though as its quite un-clear in parts , I like the voice and microphone effect though. I started the track with a light piano and then slowly introduced the basey middle part, which slowly faded to the light part again. I was pleased with how I compressed the soundtrack to 20 seconds, as there is quite rich. I had to tamper with the timing of the instruments to get match it up to the sequence.