Final Title Sequence

Dummy Submission

We had our dummy submission this afternoon, and during it I realised I had made a mistake on my title sequence, I had put in the time and day which you wouldn't get on a title sequence,

I have gone back and changed this, removing the time and day and increasing the size and position of the title and the channel,

Time to burn the DVD a second time!

CD Packaging...Final

These are the images of my final packaging, I am pleased with how it came out. I kept it in keeping with the motion graphics I designing by using the same assets and techniques I had used in the movie.

CD Packaging...In the Making

CD Packaging...Pattern Size

I am experimenting with the size of pattern to use on the inside of my packaging, I want it to be small enough so you can get a lot of detail when you see it through the cut out sections of the outer packaging, I have printed out these three different sizes as a text to see which on works the best,

I'll photograph them all with the cut put packaging and see which one is most successful.

CD Packaging....10 Editions

For my CD packaging I want to propose the idea that there would be 10
 different editions of the packaging to collect, 
this makes it a more desirable thing to have, people want to have all 
10 and complete their set. Each one would have a different pattern for 
the inner sleeve, here are the 10 patterns I propose, 
I will mock these all up on Photoshop a swell, but will only print and make one for hand in.

CD Packaging...Inside Sleeve Patterns

I have being designing my inside sleeves for my CD packaging, 
I have used patterns that I have drawn myself and then tiled them to make a
 wallpaper effect. I am going to use these for the inside sleeve of the
 packaging which you will be able to see through the cut out on the outside.

Title Sequence...Version 2

This is an improved version of my title sequence, I have taken some of the footage out so the pace
is a lot slower which I think was needed.
I think this is going to be my final version of my title sequence.

Title Sequence...Changes

I have realised that I have tried to cram to much into my 60 second title sequence,
 it is not necessary for me to use all of the top ten patterns in my title sequence,
 I am going to go back and remove some so each of the pattern names that remain
 in the title sequence, get more screen time so the facts can be read for longer.

CD Packaging...Ideas

These are my initial ideas for my packaging of my CD, I am going to try out some of these ideas and mock them up and see what works out the best.

Title Sequence....Rove Across Time

When using the Mattes at the end of my tittle sequence, the background patterns weren't moving smoothy across, the speeds were changing pace.
To fix this I selected the key frames and change them to rove across time,

This means the background moves smoothy across. Problem fixed,
I might go back and apply this to other points in my title sequence.

Final title sequence....Version 1

This is my first draft of my final title sequence, it stills needs work but all the components are there they just need some tweaking.

Title Sequence....Title/Channel/Date

At the end of my title sequence when the title, time, date and channel come up I want to use Mattes, I want the Patterns to move behind the title, ending on one of the patterns, then the other information will appear.

Title Sequence...Error

As I was working on my title sequence I went back to watch it over and when it got to the Tartan pattern frames I realised two of the facts were the same and one was in completely the wrong place.

I went back into my files and fact 1 and 2 were the same, I was unsure how this had happened but I deleted one of the facts from my composition and went back into Illustrator and made a new file. All is back to normal.

Key Framing to the Soundtrack

When listening to the soundtrack on After Effects if you press down ctrl + 8
 it marks where you have noted a beat or a key point in your soundtrack.
I have been using this function in my title sequence, I have marked the
 beats in the song then matched them to my key frames so my text moves in time with the song.

Title Sequence...Assets-Facts

These are all the facts for each pattern that I am going to use in my title sequence, they are all saved as Illustrator files ready to imported into After Effects.

Title Sequence...Motion Paths

All my text is moving in and out of shot so all follow a motion path, at first my text kept backing up on itself and it was because I hadn't changed the key frame where I wanted it to stop,

 

When you want a motion path to stop and for your object or text to remain in position you must change the key frame to toggle hold keyframe.


I started off looking at simple motion paths, the first piece of text moves from left to right across the screen,

My nest one move from above and across and then down off the bottom of the shot,

The nest one moved diagonal, I had some issues with this one, I wanted to make it move in vertically then rotate into view, however I couldn't get the movement right, I am going to try this movement later on in the title sequence,

This one moves in time with the music, 

Title Sequence...In the Making

I am using the names of the top ten patterns that I cut out in Photoshop which I used for one of my idents.
These are going to form the basis of my title sequence.

Keeping organised is vital, especially now with a 60 second title sequence, I have a lot of files in my After Effects composition so I am colour co-ordinating all my files together in relevance of pattern.

I am going to use this brown paper texture as my background, I have used it in some of my idents so I am keeping consistency.

4 Idents

  


These are my final 4 idents, if I have time after I have finished my title sequence I will go back and tweak them a bit but overall I am happy with how they turned out, I feel I have achieved what I set out to do on my storyboards.

Title Sequence...Timeline

I have made timeline my storyboard for my title sequence, to get  a sense of pace and timings. I don't have a wall anywhere big enough in my house to spread it out across a wall so I have kept it to this format.
Each line represents 10 seconds of the animation, I have timed for each different name to take up 5 seconds of the title sequence and for the last 10 seconds to be for the title, channel, time and date.