PB3: Nearing The End

Due to an unexpected, highly hectic, and very fun weekend, I ended up not getting the bulk of my editing done yesterday (surprise, surprise). As I had yet to miss a lecture yet I decided today was probably the day to stay home and work rather than waste the time of getting to and from school.  I have now at 7:30 pm got the most of my editing for PB3 done. The hardest thing about the project has been the amount of material I’ve had to cut. My subject and I had a very broad conversation about having pragmatic goals and how one can go about achieving them and unfortunately I was unable to work it into the finished piece due to the time limit. I feel like the overall narrative is a tad bland but I feel as if I have very much tried to keep it structured, to a simple point, and consistent in overall tone.

I also made my first attempt at using Adobe After Effects I used this tutorial to create my opening title sequence:

https://youtu.be/Vortl0f3Ps4

MotionMile makes the materials free to download and to use for any project (providing you give credit). So I figured this may count into the “found footage” requirement – that I am still struggling to meet.

My finished intro looks like this:

https://vimeo.com/163233631

I opted out of animating the titles as this was my first time using after effects and doing this much had already taken up about 2 hours of my editing time. The tutorial itself is about 45 minutes and seemed a bit advanced I am sure it wouldn’t be for someone who is comfortable with the program. I expect I’ll come back to it when I have some free time to play around.  I am very pleased with the finished product of this as it certainly gives my project a much more professional look than using the basic titles provided within premiere. To do this I also had to download some extra fonts from the creative cloud (which I had no clue was a thing one could do) and was so excited by the prospect of how many different styles I will be able to create.

Now off to listen to today’s lectorial!