After Effects Development

Footages


Rural : Farnham Park, field behind uni campus, green screen of me






Urban : London (Canary Wharf), green screen of Ethan





After Effects Applied

1. Portals between the two dimensions http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/animated_polygon/

I first watched the video above and customised myself a portal. Then I put it in the duel screen, duplicate and flip it on the other side and adjusted the angle. I hope to achieve the visual idea of a portal taking us to the other side of the world. Since I added a lot of details in it to make it a more special shape and animation, it took me the longest time to do and render it (a 5-second clip...).






2. Playing with opacity, glow

I chose the footages I want to overlay and adjusted the opacities. Then I played around different footages with the effect of Glow to give a more surreal view.


3. Green Screen

Before going to the journalism studio, I knew I need a boy on the left side of the screen and a girl on the other side, floating, if possible. They should be anonymous so they will be just be a shade and I masked out Ethan's hair as well.

I was trying to make the tree branches to look more like a busy internet/ web.

As for the floating part, I was thinking lay down on a table but then when I was in the studio I found two stools with green seats. The green seats are in a different shade of green then the green screen but I gave it a try. I tried to dangle my limbs and hair but they are too long to fit in the green screen. It would be better if the screen is also on the floor. When I do the editing, I had to mask out the chair because the shade is really different so can't be keyed out. In the last few seconds, Ethan walked into the frame so I masked him out and expand the mask according his movement in the last 2 seconds.







4. 3D Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBXp9gdUtJU


As I want to create a story, I knew I want to add camera in it to give the scene a bit more movement. I only added it to slowly moving towards the floating/ buried character as I want to keep the scenery. 




5. Swirl

I used this effect to end the story and the world is a way to show the 4th dimension is unstable. I didn't use static/ noise to end the world as said in the last post because I think it makes more sense to have black screen/void to show a ended world.

6. Tint

I played around with colours at the end while the world is unstable.