3208 Doodlez

Ok, so after showing the first draft to the class, I knew what I had to do to make my Ken Burns assignment better.

Here's the list of changes I hope to implement soon enough (will spend one night burning midnight oil to do the editing):

1. Do colour correction on all the pictures, which I have yet to do since it was a rush just to complete the assignment to show the class the other day.

2. Redo-all the transitions into those zooming in kinds and do the usual motions on the pics for the Ken Burns requirement. I feel this is important as I noticed that a lot of my peers merely did transitions and movements that did not highlight the sacredness of the Ken Burns effect, which states the use of motion on pictures to highlight key aspects of a certain part of a picture in a way that looks like it came from a movie (I hope I got the interpretation right) plus the idea that the movement can say a lot about the kind of picture it is and what story it brings out to the audience.

3. Add on more lyrics to the video. I was going to add in more pictures focusing on the small things we take for granted in NUS (like the power sockets, the clean toilets, the NUS lift, the many stairs, cool activities to do, etc.) I got new pictures of NUS from my filming locations recently and some do look good, so I thought, hey why not just add it in here?

4. MAKE MY SCRIPT RHYME!!! This will be my ultimate goal. I will attempt to make my whole script rhyme. But if I can't, I will just stick to that melodious tune I had going on in the beginning.

I do intend to keep it emotional and real, as that is simply the style I chose to do, and I aim to make it look good at what it's supposed to do: to make other NUS students cry after seeing it.

I am considering Photostory to do the simple transitions and working on those videos on after effects and add the script on after effects. But if I get really good at after effects from my 3B experiment, I will consider doing more complex motions on after effects for everything. But it will also depend on how much time I have to do this.