For this brief our group came up with the idea for a new animated show called “The Freaks Of Nature” and we made a trailer for it. The plot of this show would be a group of Glaswegian teens who fight crime while juggling a school life, during all this they try to keep their identities a secret from the rest of the world. As well as having light hearted humour of an animated show it will also deal with topics that will be relevant to young people such as exams, mental health and other pressures that people in that age group can relate to.
I have contributed to the group by creating a storyboard for the trailer and helped to edit the video by putting in the effects using Adobe After Effects. My strengths in the group have been doing art for the project and editing the effects, such as of the ruler flying off screen, the bottle floating above the girl’s head and the timing of the scenes.
If I was to do this project again I would spend more time doing the effects so they are smoother and look more natural. I would learn more about the programmes we used to make this so it would look less static when the ruler and the bottler moving as I felt that they looked out of place with the rest of the video. The programmes we used to create the trailer were Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition and Adobe Photoshop, I have used Audition a little before this brief but I have had no experience with the others so I would like to familiarise myself with these programmes so I will be able to use them better. In the future I would like to work on my time management as I feel that we took longer on this project than necessary.
Group Three FA 