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Key from Brief:

- At least one piece of work should be a commission working with a client.
- Remember to maintain client relationship invoices, as well reflecting research dimensions.
- Padlet (learning journal) entails supporting evidence.
- Padlet needs to be 1500 words min.

- Portfolio should contain 3-5 pieces of work.
- Attend One-to-One appointments with tutors.
- 'Topsheet' for each project is required.

- FORMATIVE 2nd MARCH (Show work in-progress)

- Delivery of Viva (10-15 mins). A screen recording showing highlights from each piece.

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Viva Presentation - How they work

- 1 minute extract from 4 or 5 pieces of my work. Most important stuff
- Give context of the project, say what I did (my role) The journey, challenges I have overcome
- Use the language of my craft, post prod terms
- It should be a QT movie (15 mins MAX)

THIS IS THE SCREEN RECORDING

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Showreel Competition - look more into what clips to choose.
RH work - reel - background
Networking - Talent Manager - SkillSet
Freelancing - employment

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- Start gathering past footage for portfolio
- Create a typography / motion graphics for a title sequence or a music video in AE to add in
- Recreate Editing CV (online and notes for example(s)

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My client for the 'outside of Ravensbourne freelance) work will be my friend called Owen. I met Owen through college during my creative media production course, of what he studied too. Owen used to stream a lot via twitch with the content of paying games, his channel was called 'Foxygaming'. As he as gradually over this time stopped streaming, I thought being my idea was to gather some of his streaming footage and put together a Youtube style video for him.

This idea has stemmed from the online content creators called 'Sidemen' who are mainly known on Youtube with multiple channels revolving different styles of editing. Their main channel has just under 18M subscribers. Watching 'Sidemen' for years brings so much joy into my life. They recently have also created a BTS website, where you pay monthly subscription where you can see all the behind the scenes, camera work and sometimes editing work which interests me. (Konstantin) being their main cameraman and editor has his own youtube channel where he posts editing on the sidemen's footage.

Going back to Owen, I have spoken to him today initiating the idea and he has granted me permission to promote his streaming service. He has sent me the link to some of his streams to use.

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Here are the other Sidemen Channels on Youtube:

- https://www.youtube.com/@sidemenreacts
- https://www.youtube.com/@MoreSidemen

Sideplus:
- https://www.sideplus.com/

Konstantin:
- https://www.youtube.com/@KonFilms

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Welcome to the official Sidemen channel. The home of #SidemenSundays - We post new Sidemen videos every single Sunday!

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First Project
- VFX, Motion Graphic title sequence
STOMP e.g on Youtube fast paced

Second Project
- Music lyric video. Graphic Design in background animation - Choose song for this

Third Project
- Pick from Post Prod Rushes (competition) pref horror genre

Fourth Project
- Client outside Ravensbourne with Owen (YouTube style vid)

Further notes:
I intend to use multiple craft areas, the main being editing. Others will include a range of limits of grading, a huge use of motion graphics and if I have time I will entail sound design.

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First Project: Motion Graphic Title Sequence

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First Project: Motion Graphic Title Sequence

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3 key words for this project: Rhythmic, Typography, Dynamic.

Research examples:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngNySFSWWU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeIx4Gj7HPY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XmWq4Xs4U
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_O0A4Xeb4

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Rhythmic Fast Kinetic Typography- Don't Blink

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Years ago, I  created a Youtube private playlist listing all tutorials and video examples of this particular typography style. Either never having time to create my own or simply not having the motivation to I decided that now would be the perfect time to finally do so. Although I have been wanting to do this style of video for years now, I have faced a problem that I am not too familiar on how to create the animated text, as shown in the previous examples.

Facing this challenge, I have taken the time and learn from the youtube tutorials, self-teaching myself on how to create these effects, animations and transitions.

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rethink the 'tools aspect'

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After creating the script and watching basic typography and motion graphic after effects tutorials, I have realised that this project will take longer than expected for me to finish. After attempting the first animation for the introduction as well as the finish, I have also realised that transitions between texts are slightly harder than I thought. In the way of how smooth they need to flow between the two. It is hard to make is look seamless with the special animations I want to create.

I have come across a very frustrating issue with my After Effects, I am unsure what the reason for this issue is but whenever I am morphing two text layers together the alignment always changing and doesn't stay put within the centre. This has happened with many other animations I have attempted but to resolve this, I have realised that my After Effects is currently on an older version so I have updated and see if the problem resolves. Having to update my after effects, leading me into another problem to update my MacOS in order for the updates of Adobe software to become accessible to me.

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I created a 3 box storyboard for this segment of project one, as I needed to visualise what my aim was before attempting it onto my after effects timeline. The aim for this part is to do a simple yet effective animation of using keyframes to change the background from black to white when changing the opacity on my text layers, them itself changing text font from black to white.

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22nd Feb - Tim's Motion Graphics Workshop

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22nd Feb - Tim's Motion Graphics Workshop

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In Tim's workshop, I downloaded all of the assets he gave me, with guidelines on do's and do nots. This was a practise of giving a client what they need, in guidance of the specifications. In the brief Tim had sent the group, it is a promo for a company called MSCTY. The promo needs to include the woman putting on headphones, camera rises up through the city and reveals the MSCTY logo and URL. As well as this, I followed the frame size, rates and format for delivery. The MP4 file I have attached above is my first rough cut. After the deadline 4pm the same day of the workshop, we showed the class individually our promo's. After making lot's of notes for future improvements, I will use this project as part of my portfolio. I will continue to work on this project as well as Project One for the formative next week.

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23rd Feb - A new potential project idea?

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23rd Feb - A new potential project idea?

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Having a relaxing day off from uni work and work in general, I unwind by watching Youtube. There is a game called 'Gartic Phone' I play with my friends in my spare time. On my Youtube for you page, I came across an interesting video called 'Pros are animating in Gartic Phone'.

I found this video extremely inspiring and made me remember how I want to get more into animation as I draw in my free time. To be an animator in the future would be a great career choice for me, with some experience needed behind me. I have linked another video by the same creator 'RubberRoss'. I loved the style on how they draw the frames and it has inspired me to create something along the same lines. Because of this inspiration, I have bought an Apple Pencil to use with my Ipad to use on ProCreate, which I will buy when my pencil arrives.

My idea here is to use the animation sector in ProCreate to do something similar in this style, with the inspiration of RubberRoss and his animator friends. Because of this idea, I will need to readjust my project ideas with this replacement.

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pros animate fusions in gartic phone with no time limit!

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First Project
- Typography Title Sequence
(STOMP e.g on Youtube, music inclined)

Second Project
- Tim MSCTY promo motion graphic

Third Project
- Animated cartoons using ProCreate

Fourth Project
-  Client outside Ravensbourne with Owen (Youtube Style video)

Fifth Project?
- Pick from Post Prod Rushes (competition) pref horror genre

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After watching many more animation videos by RubberRoss and now another channel called DrawFee Show. I have distracted myself with this inspiration rather than focusing my attention on my first project. I have ordered my Apple Pencil in order to start learning ProCreate. I will start to work on the animation project on Wednesday when I have my pencil delivered. In the mean time, I am progressing on Project One.

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FORMATIVE TOMORROW.
Currently, I have been working this project as well as another. I will add the other project in this padlet when I am happier with my progress. On the other hand, with the project I have uploaded above I am aware needs a lot of improving as it is still in progress. Here are some of my notes in which I would like to achieve in the future:

Add another layer of the buildings

Slow down the building layer speed

Adjust sound track for a better section

Add in record piece behind or with the circle (rotate this)

Warp the URL to the circle

Duplicate the URL warped around the circle. Pulse scale in beat

Animate the MSCTY logo typography (writes itself)

Change the colour palette

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Notes for this day filled on the 20th March

On this day I had fallen quite ill with no energy and motivation so no progress on work was made for about a week.

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I had a 1-2-1 Greg today, showing the work I have completed so far. I showed Greg my progress on Project One being the typography showreel intro. Greg had thoughts on this projects which have enabled me to rethink the project thoroughly. Instead of doing an introduction for my showreel, I should use these keyframes and ideas for this project to change into a music lyric video. Notes for this will be on the 20th March.

Greg showed me a folder on Aula filled with rushes from projects I haven't worked on, which I can use for this project as one of my things to replace or work on. Going through the folder with Greg, I found rushes to an edit of a horror edit which I will be attempting to edit. I have downloaded the footage on my laptop, ready when I am to begin that project.  Notes for this will be on the 20th March.

After discussing with Greg how I have lost interest and motivation to complete my original ideas for some project, Greg reminded me that I can use previous project rushes which I haven't worked on before. This made me remember the 'I am A Flower' audio I hadn't worked on before in first year which I always wanted to. Notes for this will be on the 20th March.

I have now downloaded the 'Top Sheet' which will help me keep me organised and updated on how many hours of work I am up to. The goal for the amount of hours I must have done is 175 hours.

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Further notes here from my 1-2-1 with Greg.

Typograpy Project

For this project, as I have a lack of interest Greg has given me the idea to create this idea into a new one of a music lyric video in this same format of typography and motion graphics.
I will try to remain the same keyframes I have already submitted however to change the text and to work with the music. I will choose an existing song either from my Spotify or I will use an existing audio track I haven't used back from first year (I am a flower). For this new idea, I will create sketches and a new draft of storyboard. However, If I cannot find a viable song to use. My backup is to research into a music track to depict a company which I could use for this inspiration into an advert.

Rushes Folder on Aula
I am thinking instead of competing in the EPP Promo, I will create an edit from the 'rushes folder 2023' on Aula which I didn't know about. After looking in this folder, I have downloaded footage of an edit called 'Ashes' which falls in the horror genre. The duration of this project is 12 minutes, however I will create my own brief depicting my own goals using the rushes.

Tim's Motion Graphic Workshop
I will still continue on my progress with this piece, however I still have to make the updates which I wish to. This project is half way done, and have got notes from my wishes on a previous section on this padlet.

Animation Cartoons on ProCreate
I will also continue with this idea. I will need to create ideas on what cartoon design I want to go for, and the story for the animation. I am however building skills using the animation aspect on the ProCreate software to prepare me for this project in the future.

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Project One
- Music lyric video for existing song typography format

Project Two
- Tim's Motion Graphic Workshop

Project Three
- Animated cartoon

Project Four
- 'Ashes' edit in the Rushes folder Aula

Project Five
- Client outside of Rave (Owen Youtube style video)

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FIRST PROJECT RESEARCH MUSIC LYRIC VIDEO 

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FIRST PROJECT RESEARCH MUSIC LYRIC VIDEO 

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This video has opened my eyes on how boring lyric videos are typically. Using this youtube video as a reference, I have noticed throughout the entire piece that not much is going on. The text appears in a fast transition and stays on screen, not static but slight movement happens with distortion to the text. I find this to be too basic and boring, especially for a third year almost graduate piece is too easy. On the other hand, what has inspired me from this video is the small white lines drawing in behind the text. My inspiration from this video reminds me of a dated rap music video which has neon line drawings (almost animation). I will find an example of this and explain further my idea.

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Billie Eilish - lovely (Lyrics) ft. Khalid

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This is a basic example at the beginning of this video showing my idea of what I am going to do for my chosen music track and video. Although with this idea, I am going to change it slightly in my own special way by adding text in too. This project will now allow me to explore an edit effect which I have always wanted to try out and use, as well as expanding my knowledge and skills on colour grading.

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Glowing Lines Effect | Blottermedia Dance Effects (After Effects Tutorial)

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My music lyric video (typography, animation)

This is the song which I will be using for my first project. My idea for this is going to be based on the music video itself as well as the lyrics. Using my basic drawing and animation skills along with my typography skills in after effects my idea is to create a music video using ProCreate to create the animation with bright colours to depict the background for the typography which I will create after in After Effects.

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Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (Official Video)

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I will be using the lyrics from the song itself on Spotify to help me create ideas on what to draw for the animation for this first project. After listening to the song a few times and reading into the lyrics carefully, I have generated some ideas in my head for how I will attempt this.

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This is a video which I will have a similarity in my music lyric video. I will animate fruit in the background slowly dropping down just like they do in this video, however my opacity will be much lower so I can have effective typography in the foreground.

I have used this video as inspiration and research as the song I have chosen 'Watermelon Sugar' contains a lot of fruit. I will animate and draw fruit which will fall. This is happen throughout majorly the chorus of the song.

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Hey Bear Sensory - Fruit Salad Dance Party - Counting 1 to 10 - Fun animation with music

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I have created a storyboard one some lined paper with some drawings, which indicates what my vision is for that specific lyric. I have also included repeats of when the pre-chorus as well as the chorus when that happens, including colours and typography ideas which I would like to add.

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I have begun my first project, slowly making my way through all of the pre-compositions. I have added these strawberries in which you can see on the picture above, as well as the moon which I drew from scratch using the software ProCreate. I then used keyframes to animate the drawings even further so it is suitable for the lyrics which are being sung at the time.

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I have finally completed the animation background for this project, finishing with 17 pre-compositions. My next step is to render, export this after effects composition. Create a new one and add in all of the text layers, then I will add typography to them.

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Here are all of the Procreate drawings I have completed, exported and airdropped onto my laptop.

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I have completely finished my first project after a total of 61 post production hours. From the 30th March I had completed the animation background. I then rendered and exported this Adobe AE project to a H.264 so it was easier to open this into a new composition. This is so I could add all of the text layers. In total, I completed 134 text layers, making sure the lyrics pop up in time of when the words are sung. After adjusting all of the lyric layers, I initiated some typography into the project which I thought would look good and suitable with the lyrics at the time.

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This is a screenshot of all the text layers I have created in my After Effects project.

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My thoughts on the process, what worked well and what I would have done differently within this piece of work.

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As I completed this project on the 22nd February at Tim's Workshop I knew I had to finish the project with the notes I had created to improve. However, now after looking back on the project I have come across an issue.

Because I updated my After Effects, I no longer have access to the AEP of project two as I updated my software weeks after I completed it. I could work my way around it however, due to the changes I want to make it would be easier for me to restart the project. I am going to do this by creating a new composition and adding the changes, as well as re-doing what I did before.

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These are the changes I am going to work on tomorrow for my second project:

Add another layer of the buildings

Slow down the building layers

Pull a different clip of the sound track

Add in record piece behind or with the circle (rotate this)

Warp the URL to the circle

Duplicate the URL warped around the circle. Pulse scale in beat

Animate the MSCTY logo typography (writes itself)

Change the colour palette

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Finished Project Two

Above I have attached a screenshot of my composition of my second project. After restarting my project, I ensured that I added in all of the changes I want to make before throughout this process.

I kept in the same footage of the woman wearing the headphones at the beginning, however I dragged this segment out just a tad longer than my original cut. I wanted to do this because I wanted to make sure something interesting was happening throughout all 15 seconds of the music ident. In the original cut, I had red Tokyo buildings, however I changed the saturation in this cut to blue. I changed the colour palette in this version as I think the colours work better than previous. I did this by looking at the guideline PDF Tim gave me within the package of assets.

While completing this specific project, I learned how to control audio within After Effects. I know how to adjust audio in Premiere, but I didn't know how to adjust volume levels in AE. However, after adding in fade in and outs, I have learnt this skill. Another skill which I learnt is how to use the pen tool in AE in order to do a 'handwriting' effect. I did this on the MSCTY layer to give some dimension to the logo.

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This is completed version of Project Two. I managed to add in every note I wanted to change from the previous cut. It went quite smooth, nevertheless having to restart from scratch after software issues. I enjoyed this project and made me realise I would like to motion graphics more often in the future. One thing I would like to change, if to do this sort of project again would be the URL scaling is not how I wanted it to look. I would make sure to tighten this scaling so it looks slightly better than it does.

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My thoughts on the process, what worked well and what I would have done differently within this piece of work.

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I opened a new composition within Adobe Premiere Pro to start project three 'Ashes'. This project is about a tragic death of a man's wife, he then is unsettled with events that he experiences in his house.

My first task is to watch the original cut of the completed sequence, secondly to go through the footage and pick out the best cuts. I will then slowly arrange a first draft of my project.

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I have created myself a brief on how I am going to work on this project. I have mentioned what I want to achieve, skills I want to either build on or gain as well as one goal I want to set myself.

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After spending 5hours 15 minutes so far on this project, I have managed to cut a basic rough draft. I used the original cut to inspire me of the scenes and cuts. It also gave me a basic understanding of the storyline, while assessing the script. I colour coded all of the folders so it was easier to me to acknowledge them within my timeline. I went through every clip in the folders and picked out my favourite cuts, aligning them where they should be placed.

Now that I have finished my first draft of the project, my next few tasks are to watch the entire timeline and look for any improvements within the visuals. Making sure of any black frames where shouldn't be and making sure everything is at my wanted duration.
After checking the visuals are good, I will add some effects if transitions are needed. Titles will be added in this step.
Thirdly, I will adjust any audio which needs to either be added or altered in the timeline.
The last step of finishing the project will be to take it into DaVinci for the colour grading process.

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I have finally finished this project. After spending 22 hours on this project, I have managed to complete everything I wanted to do within timeframe. In this image I have attached above, I am displaying the colour grading process I completed. After having some diffuculity colour grading in DaVinci which I wanted to use originally for this process. I ended up using keyframes to change colour, hue, saturation, shadows, contrast and brightness within Premiere Pro. Finally I exported the final product as an H264.

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My thoughts on the process, what worked well and what I would have done differently within this piece of work.

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I haven't managed to do any work since the 10th of April due to family personal issues at home. I have taken a few days away from work to help my mum with some injuries. Due to taking a few days off work, I am now feeling behind on my projects. Realistically I would like to have a client based project as well as a fifth project completed with the aspect of creating a title sequence.

Due to this inconvenience, I have submitted a form for extenuating circumstances form, hoping for a 5 day extension. Nevertheless, I am still going to try and do as much work as I can for the original deadline date.

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As I currently feel like I am running out of time to complete any work, in the next couple of days my goal is to have a completed project four.

Project Four is going to be my client-based project for my friend Owen. I will attempt to create a Youtube style video. (Funny FoxyGaming Moments).

Inspired by 'SidemenReacts', I would like the duration of this project to be about 8 minutes long.

On the other hand, if hopefully my extenuating circumstances form gets approved I will have more time to finish Project Five.
Project Five will be a completed After Effects, Illustrator and ProCreate title sequence which I will create for a specific film.

Ideas I have for this will be based on:
- Mission Impossible
- Pink Panther
- James Bond
- Friends
- John Wick

This project has been inspired from the film 'Catch me if you can' as the title sequence from this film is phenomenal and I would love to create something similar to this.

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Here I have attached a screenshot from me and Aimee's conversation. As I am unsure if I will have enough time to create Project four, I have read in the editing groupchat that it is a good idea to recieve client feedback on one of your pieces instead. Therefore, just in case I won't have enough time. I have asked my good friend and classmate Aimee to review and feedback my 'Ashes' piece.

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This is my initial conversation with Owen, discussing my idea with him. I needed his help with some assets he would like to be included within the banner and/or the motion graphics title.

Owen will send me his logo and channel PDF later on. Update to come on this when I have received the documents.

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This is a link to Owen's Youtube channel. After initially viewing the channel, I have come up with something more exciting than my original Youtube Compilation video idea. I have noticed that firstly the banner and the intro video are both quite outdated, considering Owen hasn't used his Youtube channel for a while and has moved to Twitch. My new idea is to redesign and create a banner and or intro video for FoxyGaming.

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So today was supposed to be my original deadline, however on the 18th of April (as you can see attached above) I have received approval of my request of extended circumstances. My new due date is on the 28th of April.

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Updates on Owen:

After initially talking with my client about his promo video, Owen sent me a PDF of his Foxygaming logo. I have attatched above a Youtube banner which I have created on the software Adobe Photoshop for his channel. After sending this over to Owen, I added the improvements he suggested to change. In the next couple of days, I will complete a motioon graphic piece as for Owen's intro video.

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I sent Aimee my "Ashes" project for client feedback. I have attached a screenshot of our conversation, where Aimee discusses where improvements can e made as well as things which worked well. In addition to this, I also evaluated Aimee's documentary and gave her5 client feedback too.

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-warfcjazzE

- Animation lines bottom into centre explosion

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8YUM8ccNS4
- Intro inspiration, how to work with shapes AE

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Animating a Youtube Intro - Motion Design Workflow Tutorial

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I have designed a colour palette in Photoshop with the Hex codes of the colours I want to use within both the banner as well as the intro video. I have kept it minimal to 4 main colours of orange, light/dark green and white. Here are the HEX CODES:

Orange - F16944
Light Green - 41BC98
Dark Green - 225E4C
White - FFFFFF

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CREATE STORYBOARD ON PROCREATE

IT WILL BE 10 SECONDS LONG

Black at the start

Music track Owen used previously

Circles appear intwined together with keyframes

"FOXYGAMING" appears typography style TBC

Glitching in RGB

Last 3 seconds small fox walks into frame

Fade black last second quick punchy

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I have created a storyboard to help me visualise what the intro video is going to do with each aspects. I designed the drawings within ProCreate and added each scene into a slideshow, including notes of what goes on in each scene.

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After putting together all of my ideas from the storyboard and all of the drawings I created in ProCreate, I created an After Effects composition. I firstly created the shape layers at the beginning of the project, added keyframes on the scale from small to fill the screen. I then animated the fox logo to fit centre of the screen, and changed position to centre left. I also animated the eyes so it changes direction and looks at the text rushing in on the right, then bumping into the fox logo.
After animating the position of the "FoxyGaming09" title, I added in a flame effect on the fire above the i in "Gaming". I then animated the text further with more scaling, adding glitch effects and shadows. Finally I then used a mask path to gradually add in the fox paw prints in the background.

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After completing my project, I sent Owen the file and this is his client feedback. Nothing he wanted to change and loved it!

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My thoughts on the process, what worked well and what I would have done differently within this piece of work.

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I wrote a simple script on what I wanted to say for the Viva Assessment with quotes on what to show during the screen recording. This PDF is page one. The next PDF is page two.

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This is page two of my viva assessment script.