Final Product:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive
My opening for the TV series “With the World on Us” would be shown in a drawn, animated slideshow format, with different frames reflecting the events of the story. The story is about 3 ordinary mercenaries in a fantasy world and timeline, having to fight for their own survival during the time of a multi-kingdom waged war. Civil unrest, capital oppression and mass murder and destruction make the lives of our protagonists harder than ever, as they take on the war-torn cruel world as a band.
Programs used were Premeire, Photoshop, and Camtasia (for screen recording on some effect transitions)
Effects: Colorize, pan, zoom, fade, fade to black, glow
Feedback- First 60 seconds
- Complete the entire video in order for people to better see the flow of the frames.
Changes I need to make:
- Change the music
- Add in the frames
- Make the panning of the frames look smoother
- Add in better transitions (smooth it out)
Reflection:
After watching the opening play out on the projector screen with the class, I personally think that it played out smoothly, especially as the video moved on, the display of proficiency with editing became more obvious. The comic styled animated opening received positive feedback from the class. Mainly by the way of organization and flow, people said that the things that worked were the transitions of the imagery and the background of the world map.
After reading Understanding Comics chapter 4, I realized I actually used a lot of the comic elements in my opening. It is surprising because I created the video before I read the chapter. My styles that used transitions between frames was a way of showing time frames. Time frames is the core of a story told in a comic. Without the next frame consistently lining up with the previous frame, the story wouldn’t at all make sense. When the artist draws the next frame, they must take into account all the tiny details that were included in the previous frame, so that the story doesn’t get mangled into a mess for the reader. Transitions between each time frame is also extremely important, as the way it is presented may be the key factor in making the reader interested for what comes next. It doesn’t have to always be within a grid, for example, arrows or images that cross over multiple frames is an interesting way to show the progression of a few frames, forming a group.
