What would San Diego look like after a cataclysmic event?
What could cause flora and fauna to overtake our city?
Imagine our city’s great landmarks reduced to rubble and ruin.

For this project, students will research a cataclysmic event that could befall San Diego. They will write a 30 second narration about the event, the causes, and the effect on the San Diego landscape, then they will create a 10 second video that illustrates what the aftermath of the event would look like.

Resources:
http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/blog/apocalypse-european-cities-seen-last-us
http://worldunderwater.org/#/locations

Urban Isolation from Russell Houghten on Vimeo.

Tech Skills You will Implement:
Photoshop
-Selection Tools
-Healing Brush (to remove people)
-Layering
-Blending Modes
-Opacity
After Effects
-Compositing
-Masking
-Color Correction
-Keying
-Particle Systems
-Keyframing
-Blending Modes
-Opacity

Phase 1: RESEARCH/WRITING

Phase 2: PHOTOSHOP

Phase 3: AFTER EFFECTS

-Import you PSD into After Effects. Be sure to import as a Composition.
-Make a new 10 second long composition using the HDTV 1080 24 settings.

-Drag your Photoshop folder into the composition.

To add smoke and fire effects, make a new layer for each (Layer>New>Solid Layer). In the effects window, use Fog Jights for smoke and cc Particle Systems for fire.

 

 

 

 

 

TIPS:
Collaborate within your group. If you need fire or smoke or dilapidated buildings or flooded streets or whatever, have one person in your group perfect creating that effect, and share within your group.