Timed Brief

I was asked to attempt to complete the brief in a 2 hours session (yikes!) with the help of fellow student Dan Bylo who is specialising in Illustration. As Dan did not know the brief, it was my job to explain it to him quickly, but with enough detail that he understood. I did this really well and he got right away what we needed to do.
Immediately we got onto the first step to tackle the brief: Research. We created a mind map of all the things that we thought of to do with Sky Arts and what it was about. We tried to do this quickly, as we only had 2 hours to complete the whole brief.
After this, a series of sketches and rough storyboards were created to outline our idea. I had the idea that we could use an image of an old movie camera rolling, with spinning reels, and the word 'arts' would come out of the lens in a wavy pattern like film tape. Because of time restraints we used stock images of a movie camera and film reels and edited them to our own needs using Photoshop. We also did this with the Sky Arts logo.
Once we had edited these images, i imported them to After Effects where the magic would happen! But....
I had been away from After Effects for so long i had to catch up with what i forgot! I knew I should have carried on playing with it over summer!!!
I managed to get the film reels spinning absolutely fine, and the word to move and grow out of the lens. The only thing i had forgot how to do was how to make an object follow a custom path, to create the wavy film strip-like effect.
But then alas, i found the tools!
And then another setback, one to totally destroy the whole concept; Time was up >:(


It didn't look amazing, but was certainly a foundation and gave a general feel of what was happening.


Anyway, here is the video we created:

Side note: This video may come out a little pixelated. This is because i have had to upload it at 1/3 quality due to my exceptionally rubbish internet speeds >:(
Like I said, it didn't go exactly to plan, but from this I learnt something; Timing is crucial. I had forgot how to use certain tools and this hindered me. Obviously I have got over this hurdle now, but it is a good job I encountered this problem in a tutorial workshop, just testing out initial ideas. I really enjoyed the exercise, and now I have had a taste of animation once again, I'm well up for the full brief now!