As a budding filmmaker, you draw inspiration from your life’s experiences and use these as muses for your art.
In this class, you will spend some time creating a mini-documentary, using motion graphics created in After Effects, that explores who you are, your influences, and your artistic vision.
Here are examples from a similar mini-documentary, with the exception of the artists being an aspiring musician and fashion photographer, rather than filmmakers:
Mini-documentary about your learning experience.
First Person Narrative about your journey.
Possible talking points:
–Introduce yourself
–What is it about you that draws you to this field?
–What are your influences (films, filmmakers, other)?
–Current Wishes, hopes, dreams, fears?
–What are you learning through research and practice (about self, field of study, people)?
–Where do you get your ideas?
–What does your future hold (college, career, art, etc.)
B. B-roll (visuals for your documentary):
- –Long Portrait
- –Cinemagraph
- –Kinetic Typography
- –2.5D Parallax images
- –Time Lapse of you working
- –Time Remapped Screen Captures of your editing process
- –Images/Video of your influences
- –Childhood Pictures/Video
- –Animated Line Contour Portrait & Signature
- –Slit Scan Time Displacement
- –Stencil Luma (Double Exposure Effect)
- –Kaleidascope
- –3d wiggle
- –Stencil Alpha Titles
B-Roll assignments
The following are examples and resources for creating the B-roll (visual elements) of your mini-documentary:
Long Portraits
Animated Contour and Signature
Stencil Luma
Slit Scan/Time Displacement Video
How To Create Bizarre Slit Scan Video using After Effects from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.
2.5 D Film Poster Using this technique:
2.5D Tutorial
After Effects, Kinetic Typography
Giant Video
Massive from Dan Chen on Vimeo.
Title Design