Blog Post #6: I Just Enjoy Watching the Text Blocks Fly On My Screen... ෆ

Introduction

In this blog post, I used animation to enhance my previous audio (video?) story from 2 weeks ago. I used Adobe Premiere to edit my project.

Audio Story

In my previous blog post, I once again shared my audio story, but this time with a visual supplement! The video can be found below.

This week, the first animation I added was a purple rectangle block, along with text that reads, “Why is rap such an important genre of music?” as I say it in the voice over. This signals to the listener / viewer that what I am saying is important and that they should pay attention to that line. I chose the purple rectangle block because it stood out on the red background in the picture. I set the font to a fancy cursive that wasn’t too difficult to read, and the rectangle to 100% opacity because I felt that it looked too muted if it was any lower. I added key frames to both the text and the rectangle block so they both moved up the screen at the same time and rate. I did this by positioning the Timeline playhead at the start of the clip, and clicking and dragging the animation so it would be off the screen at an earlier time in the video (Jago, Aug 18).

I did the same thing a few other times in the video, as I am listening to random POS’s responses.

Here is the final result:

Reflection

Overall, I had a surprisingly much easier time on this assignment than the last one. I think it was partly because last week I was still getting to be familiar with the software, and this week I am infinitely more comfortable using it, as I now know my way around it. The supplemental reading helped as well, especially Animate a layered title fly-in (Jago, Aug 18) which helped me figure out how to move my animation blocks and texts.

Blog Post #5: Dang We Usin' PHOTOS Photos Now? ෆ

Introduction

In this blog post, I (once again) build upon my audio story by adding supplemental image stills to start to bring my audio story to life. I did this by importing my audio story to Adobe Premiere, and placed images on Premiere’s timeline.

POS Project

In my latest blog post, I finally shared the 2-minute audio story that I had been working on throughout the semester. The result can be found below.



The Process

At first, the software was very overwhelming and intimidating, since I had never worked with something like Premiere before. However, once watched the weekly videos and started playing around with the software, it started to become a lot more clear. It was a lot more tedious than I thought it would be, since I had to make the images line up exactly with what was going on in the actual video, but I figured out how to layer things together and add transitions (Adobe “Build a sequence”) to the video. I also had to fill and increase the size of each photo that I added. I added transitions in between every photo so the video looked smoother, which made a huge difference in the quality of my video.

The result of my work can be found below:



What I Learned

The process of learning Adobe Premiere was harder than learning Audition, Photoshop, and InDesign. Despite this, however, I had a lot of fun putting my video together and I want to continue to learn more. The Creative Captioning video was interesting, and I can't wait to incorporate more elements into my project like the ones they talked about, such as using text and Pictograms. I want to continue to find better images to use for my video story, and continue to mess around with the transitions in Premiere.