Scene 15 - Pre book close.

Scene 10 - 3D land scape - Scene 11, 12, 13. Scene 14 - Pre-composition

Scene 8 - Skull scene

Writing to come

Scene 6 & 7 - Floral Scenes.

These next two scenes will be quite easy and quick to complete, as i am starting to get to grasps with how to use After Effects in general. Due to the previous scene ending on white it makes it very easy for me to animate a flower painting of O'Keeffe's appear on the page. I will do this by key framing the painting at the opacity of 0% and the up it to 100%. However, i do not want this image to be strong, i want it to hint at a painting as i am planning on having some of her brighter paintings in the next scene. Ironically the text will say "O'Keeffe loved bright colourful flowers, which is what she was widely known for." As this scene wont have any bright colour on it at all. To link the next scene on i want to zoom in onto the blackest part of the painting, which happens to be the middle of the painting. Once i have done that i will lower the opacity of the painting and place a solid black layer underneath the painting so it looks like it has darkened. Once i have darkened the black i will then immediately lover the opacity of the black to reveal the almost mood board, collage of the flower paintings beneath.

For this next scene, i am going to make a mini collage of some of O'Keeffe's most bright floral paintings. To make it more interesting then just having a collage on screen, the idea is to make the images one at a time enlarge for the audience to gain a better view and then decrease to its original size after 2 or so seconds. It is a simple exercise as all i have to do it make sure i get the key frames in the right place, and that i make sure that the duration of all the flowers being enlarged are the same length.

Scene 5 - 3D Flowers.

I spend ages doing this part of the animation. i had no clue how to get all the layers to stay together in almost one net. However, now i know how to do it i could do it in no time at all. The process is explained in my work book:

Scene 4 - The Camera.

I spent many hours looking for the right camera to use for this part of the clip. I decided to go for a image that filled the whole screen instead of one that would only part fill the screen and leave empty space around the outside of the image. This image is also perfect because it has quite a big flash box where i can key frame a white rectangle flashing to make it look like it is flashing at the audience.

Obviously the camera is also meant to represent a part of O'Keeffe's life as she married the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz and also that she spent a lot of her time modelling for his images.

It was a rather easy to animate as the only thing that moved was the flash of the camera. It also works really well it looks like a camera flash, one thing that would have looked good if i had time would be to add a makeshift camera shutter to look even more like it was taking a photo of the audience.

Scene 3 - New mexican flag.

Really Really simple, easy peasy. I used this image of the Mexican flag:

I simple deleted out all of the yellow so i was just left with the red symbol. I then imported the Photoshoped file onto after effects and animated the scene very quick and easy. To change the colour of the symbol i simple duplicated the layer and changed the colour to black and made sure they would over play perfectly on top of each other.