Final Project (CNM) In Progress 8

We are almost done! We included the introduction and the names of our features. We have some trouble with the names design initially.

The reason is because the background is constantly moving and thus the names might not be outstanding enough at certain point of the time. We have several options, we either changed the color of the names according to scene or have background for the names.

In the end, we decide to go with changing colors of the names. However, we keep it 2 colors only. White with black border and dark grey. We feel that is can help to give contrast of the names from the scene and viewers are read them comfortably. In addition, viewers wont notice the changing color so obviously and also wont get distracted as they would have if we were to use colourful fonts.

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In this iteration, I further pushed the resolution down to 50% and the result came out as I wanted. Not to unclear and not to clear either. Just nice. The coloured and high resolution part in the center help to contrast it.

In this iteration, I soften the sound of the special effects because I wanted to give viewers a more old film feeling. If the special effect sounds are louder than the background music, it seems to give the viewer the feeling that I am trying to show the special effects deliberately rather than in a comical which I intended. In addition, I managed to find the film reel sound online and put it in my clip. I purposely soften the reel sound to give the viewer that they are further from the film projector and nearer to the sound system instead. Another reason is because I am afraid that if the reel sound any louder, it because a irritant rather enhancing the viewing experience as the constant sound can be annoying which listener feels that it is an interference.

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In this iteration, I pushed the resolution down to 75% of the original for those with film overlay. The result come our better but I feel that I can be more unclear so that I can fit the whole theme.

I also shifted some music changing points so that there will be less noticeable abrupt changes in the music. In addition, I removed a song at the end and let the second last song to play all the way till the end. This help to give an over smoother music experience that feels like jell together rather than so many jazz music cutting here and there.

Assignment 2 In Progress 10

I added the film footage over my footage. The reason is because i wanted to give a old film look since it was being filmed in black and white. On adding the film overlay, I realized that the resolution of the video is too high. The film overlay does not seem to fit with the video. That is something I have to solve.

I also added songs into this iteration. I had 8 songs in my list but I only uses 6 of them. I found some thing about the olden days big swing jazz is that it is very difficult to cut and link with other jazz, unlike the music that I used in my Ken Burns which I managed to link them together appropriately.

Assignment 3 Kinetic Typography 8

In this iteration, I added an introduction to it so that this can help to give people context as to what this video is going to be about.

I changed several fonts from the previous iteration. After not seeing this assignment for weeks, font typefaces for this song seems to have a new perspective. Something the best thing to review a work is to leave it and don't look at it for sometime before reviewing it again. I found out that there are some fonts that really doesn't seems to be in place. I also changed the size of some words to give the words more contrast so that viewer will know which words to focus on.

I didn't add new lines of lyrics in. The reasons are that Julian said before its okay without adding new lyrics and second is because the next line is the second versus, it will be so weird to do just a couple lines in to a new versus.

However, I make a little changes to the ending part. The 3 similar animation at the end, which many people say its repetitive and reflect no effort, which is not the case but done after artistic consideration. I decided to change the fonts for each animation, so that you can see the progressive change of fonts. After doing it, I feel that I had better express "crazy" with the changing fonts.

Assignment 2 In Progress 7

After countless viewing my own video, I still feel something is not right. It looks so different from the Ken Burns shows that I remember watching when I was little.

I decided to make some changes. First I removed the background image because I feel that it is a little distracting since it has design on it. Second, I tried to scale and position some of my pictures so that it will show as little black background as possible. The reason is because I in my impression, Ken Burns is about the panning and zooming of pictures itself and generally do not show the border of the picture itself.



I added an introduction so that people watching it will know the context before watching. I also added my production logo at the back.

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In this iteration, I decide to change some of the timing of the footage to make the film look more continuous and compact. I am afraid that the video seem draggy especially with so many running footages.

For example, at 1:51 I decide to cut short the book spinning scene because it seems long and loses the fun of looking at it slowing down.

Another example, at 2:04 I decide to zoom in and pause on the scene for a second where I want the view to focus on as it is the funny part.