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The subject on this week’s lecture was on ‘KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY & THE USE OF TEXT’

By viewing examples of the subject, Kinetic Typography is a method of created and animated clip using text. This can be done by making the text appear on create through different ways, such as rotating from being one piece of text or having 2-3 lines of text laid out to form a particular shape.

This clip below is a example Kinetic Typography video that I have chosen for the way the animator has the text appear in some part. E.g. when one of the character’s talks about a cone, the animator made it out so that the shape of a cone was formed when 3 pieces of text was displayed on screen.

Video 1

As a class exercise, I was to select a 10-15 second sequence of audio from an existing advert or film. Once the audio was imported into After Effects, the text had to be typed out to match when it is spoken and to also use a variety of kinetic text with various methods, from different movements, positions or rotations.

This clip is the video I used as my example to create the project from. The audio clip I used from this video was the ‘Stop, Look, Listen’ sound.

Video 2

The following video is my short Kinetic Typography example:

Video 1

Protect Me Cone! - Red Vs Blue Kinetic Typography - YouTube. 2016. Protect Me Cone! - Red Vs Blue Kinetic Typography - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wp4qYDCiAU. [Accessed 10 January 2016].

Video 2

This week’s lecture was on Diagetic & Non-Diagetic sounds.

Using the horror genre is a great example to examine the use of sound. Sound in videos can create a powerful effect to the theme of the video. SO it is very important to have the audio match the video playback

Diagetic sound is a sound whose source is visible on screen or implied as to be present by the action of the film. This can range from voices of characters to sounds of the objects in the scene.

Non-diagetic sound is a sound whose source is neither visible on the screen or implied to be in the scene. This could be the narration or sound effects which are added to create a dramatic effect and/or mood.

As a team exercise, we created a short horror themed video using the 'Berberian Sound Studio’ to help create a dramatic and moody theme.

As I am a Stopmotion animator, I would tend to use camera movements as often as I can in my modern animations. The three camera movements I have came around before in my work are:

Pan

Dolly

Shaky Cam

All three of these techniques are what I have learned from the following video tutorial:

Video 1

For this week’s project (once again in teams) we went off to film a short video that would show a good example of the different camera movements (Tracking, Pans) and later put together in a final video with Foley sounds and music.

As a theme, we decided to go with a Batman themed video that would focus on a Joker-like character and how he would escape from prison. With this being Batman related, we had to look up clips that would not only relate to how we wanted the video to play out, but to show a good example of camera movements/angles too. The first video was a scene from Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie, ‘The Dark Knight’; were the Joker would escape the exploding hospital and the camera is following him as he walks away.

Video 2

The second video when used was from the video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum. We would us this scene as the main plot of how the Joker character breaks free from the guard’s clutches. This would also display a good example of camera angles, such as over the shoulder and close up shots.

Video 3

The video below is the final version of our group project video, entitled ‘Escape’

Video 1:

Camera Movement Tutorial - YouTube. 2016. Camera Movement Tutorial - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQIYjQkQhg. [Accessed 10 January 2016].

Video 2:

Batman Dark Knight - Joker Hospital Scene HD - YouTube. 2016. Batman Dark Knight - Joker Hospital Scene HD - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElOEwtx7wjA. [Accessed 10 January 2016].

Video 3: