I need to work on my background and set design. While I tried my hardest to diversify the background styles to make the aesthetic eclectic, I really want to practice making more subtle marks that imply more nuanced shading and texture. Right now, I use exclusively big block colours to colour and shade with. While that's good for a certain style, it isn't very versatile.
My tutor suggested that I edit my opening shot. The train approaches from a distance and then camera moves to show the train whizzing past from a side on view. I was told that this looked too slow and didn't convey the POWER and speed of the train, and that I should add a blur to the camera movement.
So I DID. And it looks way better now. Much schmicker.
I showed my segment to my teammates and they said that they liked it, except that the camera had a tendency to move too quickly over some of the key words and they were illegible. I took the scene back into After Effects and zoomed the camera out a little which FIXED my problem.
Recording narration:
One of my teammates used the voice of his uncle, who's an actual street artist, for the narration. His uncle is Portuguese or something so his accent had a great continental flair. I really like the idea of a broad range of accents spread throughout our video, so I split my narration into two bits. For the first part, I recorded my own posh-arse voice and for the second part I grabbed Bach, who has a rich Vietnamese accent because he is from Vietnam, to narrate. Give it a bit of DIVERSITY MATE. Because after all, street art is a universal language.
I also recorded one of my classmates, a Leeds native who had a thick Northern accent, but never ended up using it because I ran out of time to include a fourth shot. I should've timed my animatic better. My other teammate recorded in her American accent, so the diversity helps bring the animation together.
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