I taught the class!

So recently, as I have been doing all these little videos on after effects, my teacher thought I had gotten so good that she thought that everybody else needed to know how to use the software and so got me to do it! I taught two classes over two days and for two hours each class. I gave them a very rough idea about how to make their way around the software and create a good little video by taking the colour out of it or putting some lightening onto the video.
I also showed them how to do motion tracking and video stabilisation so a graphic would follow something if it was moving in the video. I briefly also went on to 3D space within AE too however this was very quickly done and not explored properly.
I hope this will be useful for everyone else in the classes

Scripting V.2

I INTEND TO TRY AND DO THE VIDEO IN ONE CUT BUT FILM IT BACKWARDS AND REVERSE IT IN AFTER EFFECTS

This is how I will film the video. It is backwards and I will reverse it later.

Man is walking forward with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

The man and the child part but we stay focused on the 'God' person

We then see the camera pan around to several other people shouting at the camera with other placards: 'Girlfriend' 'Friends' 'Work' 'Play' 'Life' 'Family' etc.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The man walks away from the crowd and stops and looks around at the people. Camera moves behind him and then around the other side of him he turns again and walks away from the camera

He then starts running and the camera also goes a bit faster than him and pans infront. He jumps over some obstacles and moves around some people who are in the way

He barrels rolls across the field

He moves forward and gets tripped up by someone

Pulls himself up again and moves onwards

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him

Jumps into a rubber boat and gets pulled along out of sight

More water

Jumps out and leaps forward

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it to the ground

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some more people

Little balls in buckets get thrown at him but still he moves onwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs along with the camera behind him

Someone gives him some cardboard wings which he flaps

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera they stays put. We see the man fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then come on screen and sings 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black.

THIS VIDEO WILL THEN BE REVERSED SO HOPEFULLY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD TAKE AND IT WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER QUITE WELL.

I will reverse the song and the cameraman will hold on to it as the video moves on

It will take a lot of organising but hopefully this should all work

I Think this video also works well with the music in the way that the man will start out being dirty from the tree and wet from the buckets of water and will be 'cleansed' as the video continues until he takes the hand of small person and he will be clean and as he should be. This is quite a nice image because of what we believe and God's ability to forgive sins etc.

I may try and experiment with maybe starting out the video with no colour and then gradually bringing the colour back into the video until it hits full colour as 'God' and the man take hands. This is also a nice image in the way that with God is the best place we can be so if the colour is not there at the start then it gives the impression that we're not meant to be without God

Digital Technology

• How has digital technology helped you to capture your ideas for media production?
I used iMovie to edit my video and my video was uploaded to Vimeo afterwards so that the whole world can see my video. I also used wordpress to put all of my notes and production sections on the internet to save paper

• What benefits do digital technologies offer? Are there any disadvantages?
There are several issues to do with secrecy and secure files. It is a real worry that if you save some files and later find out that they have disappeared you could be really set back and lose a lot of work

• How did digital technology influence your work in post-production – for example in the creation of video effects, or the manipulation of images.
The use of technology was limited as we didn't have the software that we have this year. Really the only bit of post production that I did was slow down the footage and add a vignette and slightly changed the colour

• How have your skills with digital technology developed, and how has this influenced your productions?
Since last year we have new better software and I have been slowly trying to train myself up with the software by looking at tutorials, videos and making things of my own to go on youtube

• What role might digital technology play in the distribution of work such as yours?
I will be using YouTube to help distribute my video this year. I can use all sorts of extra things like Facebook and Twitter etc. There are also loads of extra things all around on the internet and through the school that will help too