rota scope shading

To give the snow border more realism and shape i decided to go through the frames again and add some light and darkness on the sides. i also chose to add the shading on every two slides so it would make a flickering effect when in motion making it look more like it had been filmed.

After effects process

Snow board Footage

After searching through YouTube looking for a camera shot from the front of the snowboard i finally was able to find some footage. As the camera is attached to the front of the board it captures the all of the snowboarders body and every agile movement he makes when coming down the hill. The only problem is that i cant see much of the actual front of the snowboard so after the major rota scoping is done ill have to create my own shape and add it near the tip of the feet.

Exposure Fonts

After looking through different books and websites at typography trying to find a perfect style for my title i narrowed it to these nine fonts. Thinking more about it i just need a simple style that would be a suitable match for the shows topics and tone of voice. To me the first three fonts stood out more as the others tended to give off to much bold and in your face action look.

silhouette 1

This was my first attempt at trying the block colored silhouette idea. Drawn by hand on after effects this was a frame shot from a previous video and in motion i think would prove to be very effective. In future because the color tools in after effects are more limited with a low variety instead i will import the original video footage to photoshop or flash.

ipod advert

As well as the scribble rotoscoping i also like the silhouette cover. like the ipod trailer and the previous catch me if you can trailer the silhouette effect again i feel it is quick way to add color but i like it as blanks out any unneeded background of clothing and it keeps the one color on the important features that create a lot of movement.

rotoscoping style

I like scribble style as it cheap but yet shows continuous movement making it more like a cartoon effect.

main footage

My original idea was to create the snow boarder as a model in Maya. As I am not that familiar with the rigging process to create the animation I decided to simplify things by looking at recorded footage of other extreme sports e.g. snowboard, skateboarding and create a rota scope effect for each selected slide making it in my own style. The footage between 1.01 to 1.26 of this film is a good example of what kind of view i would like to record from.

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Exposure Storyboard

Although the snowboarding seemed like a good idea i would still have to incorporate other parts of shows that are broadcasted on the Exposure Channel. This includes gadgets and media and wildlife from the discovery programmes, etc.

Similar to the work of the Marvel introduction sequence where multiple parts of comic strips are flipped forward like a book. I would like to add these in as quick flash images as well throughout the main video.

snowboard idea

My Second idea was for the Exposure brief, as this channel is based on capturing of action through a lens it gives of the subject a wider range of possibilities. I got my main idea from watching the fast paced down hill snow boarding scene from the film triple x. As Exposure documents extreme sports i thought that i decided to consider this highly and maybe recreate my own clip maybe as a 3D animation.

My first choice from the breif was to pick the UFO idea as i felt i could be more creative with the alien and spaceship designs. This way i could also focus using maya as well as aftereffects for the modeling side.

Catch Me If You Can

I found this Fringe video sequence to be interesting as it starts from an example of a small piece of microscopic forensic evidence and then it leads of to something else connected to it. This quickly gives the viewers the first ideas of what the show is about.

First Ideas

What i like about this video is the block color silhouette style of the characters and would possibly like to reuse the idea myself.