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.

Scene 2 - Zoom of book and Designs.

Once i designed the 3D book and made it move and open the way i wanted it to, imported the background and played it over to see how it worked - luckily it worked well.  The next scene i have to zoom in on the opened book and i will write on some type to make it look like it is hand written.

Write on affect.

• Type what you need to type/ what you want to animate
• Move the text around until you are happy with the distance between each letter - i did mine close together so it looked like someone was writing it.
• Effect- Generate - Stroke.
• Use the pen tool and follow the text carefully in the order you would have wrote the text
• When finished click - show masks.
• a white mask will appear over the text - make sure you cannot see any of the original writing underneath the mask - amend if necessary.
• click - reveal original image to the left of the screen.
•  then move the 'start' and 'end' button to the number 0. Key frame
• move the start button to 100, and key frame and you will have hand written text.

Designing Scene 1 - Opening Book.

I have been looking for possible images and files that i could use for the opening book sequence. Here are some images of my book work i did to get to the design together for the opening of the book.

• To create the 3D book i had to use photo shop to delete one of the page from the double page spread on the paper design. This was very simple, i used the pen tool to draw around the page i did not want and deleted it.  
• I then imported the page photoshoped file - click retain layers. I imported the image of the book cover.
• I made a new composition DV PAL square pixel, 1024x526, square pixel, 25fps.
• I dragged down the two book cover images and named one - top cover and the other bottom cover.
• I did the same with the paper but i dragged one down - i moved the anchor point to the middle of the left hand side, and i duplicated the layer 5 move times so i had 6 of the same pieces of paper, same size and same anchor points.
• Layer - New - Null object - and place the null objects centre point on top of the paper's and the covers centre points.
• Layer - New - Camera - 50mm is the best setting, it shows a replication more like real life.
• Make sure the 3D icon is turned on, on all of the layers and then start key framing the different parts until you are happy with it.