Review Exercise 5: Instagram Story
Click to view:In small groups, watch each other’s Instagram Stories and provide feedback on what is working and what can be improved.
Look at the following aspects:
- Innovative concept to encourage or inform about voting locally
- narrative (beginning, middle, end, start w/ a hook, end w/ call-to-action)
- design aspects (vertical layout, typography, color, graphics)
- natural motion
- temporal design (pacing, transitioning, consistency/variety)
Introduce Exercise 6: Moving Poster Brief
Click to view:+ Download Poster Frame
Go to Google Drive to Download the “moving poster” folder. The illustrator file includes a border that I want you to put over your poster in After Effects. Before you bring the illustrator file into After Effects however, you will change the “description” and the “designed by” text in the illustrator file. Make sure to install the typeface provided first.
+ Read the following:
- The Moving Poster – Click on Spectrum and read the various methods.
Identify which method on the moving poster spectrum you end up choosing. - Poster Design is On the Move: But Where is it Going? – read this to see a break down of what works well in a few different poster examples.
+ Look at Inspo
Demos
Click to view:- Watch these videos:
- Animate an Image from Photoshop
Goes over the following: How to cut up an image using Pen tool/masks, content-aware fill, healing brush, clone stamp, importing PSD into AE, plays around with anchor point, puppet pin, turbulent displace effect, creates subtle parallax 3D effect with Camera, creates a mask, and an Alpha Matte. - My Full Class Demo
- Example Files
- Mattes in After Effects
Watch at least one of these:
Additional
DUE THURSDAY
Click to view:- Link to inspirational examples of Moving Posters.
- Share 3 poster choices and additional brief research about their designers from People’s Archive.
- Draw up rough storyboard ideas for the 3 different posters. Then in class we will choose one.
DUE NEXT TUESDAY
Click to view:- At least half of your animation finished and in your After Effects timeline ready to share with classmates for feedback in class.
DUE NEXT THURSDAY
Click to view:- Upload final Exercise 6 mp4 to Vimeo or YouTube and link to Exercise6 Slack Channel.
- 1080×1920 vertical format
- .mp4 file format
- 10-15 seconds total