evaluation

Overall i have really enjoyed this project and learnt a lot, i had always wanted to learn how to make my own kinetic typography videos and now i have bought the programs myself i will be able to make them whenever i want in the future. This method was very time consuming and if i had chosen to do a poster or something easier i would have finished a lot sooner than i did but i am glad i decided to try something a little more challenging and something i haven't done before, it was a good excuse to teach myself a new skill. there are a couple of things i would have done differently if i had to do the project over again though, for example the short clips of the band members playing their instruments took too long to cut out and put together in position and in the right order and since i have finished the video i found out about a new feature in after effects cs5 called a roto brush this enables you to select an area of a video clip, such as the artist and their instrument and then it will cut out the rest of the background on the video for you but not lose any of the movement of the parts you have selected. if i had known about this sooner it would have saved me a lot of time but i am happy with the messy effect that i created doing it myself. i would have also liked to experiment more with different backgrounds, including effects such as gradients and the use of different colours. but i think the simple black and white colour scheme i decided to use is very powerful so i am happy with my final choice. i might have even experimented with things such as shadows and light more if i'd had a bit more time, i also found out about a lot of pre programmed effects in the program that i didnt know about in time to use in my video some of these could probably help to make any future videos more interesting and exciting. I am really happy with the amount of things i have learnt during this project and i think that this is one of the best projects i have done mainly because it is something different that ive never done before, only downside is the amount of time it takes.