Motion Graphics Update

Two weeks in and AE’s beginning to drive everyone crazy—me included.  Thinking about how much I still have to do, I’m kind of scared now.  It’s not so much the concept that I’m worried about (I have that figured out… I think), but it’s the execution of it AND the surprise of how it would turn out.  I mean, wouldn’t it be the worst if it came out not as I envisioned and then I have to start over?  Okay, negativity speaking there, but can you blame me?  AE is a scary thing—ask anyone in BDC192.

Anyway, seriously speaking, my new idea is to have the photos float from off-screen and rotate on many axes to on-screen.  In the end, they would all gather in a pile.  Because I’m not at that stage yet, I haven’t decided about where the trailer would go after.  It would either:

a) reveal that the photos are in a box and a cover with The Last Song would be put on top of it

OR

b) show the photos being washed away by a wave to reveal the title

So far, I have about ten or more photos to animate and depending on how it looks, I may take a couple more or not.  Furthermore, I have a transparent layer on top of a stop motion of close-ups of my marble table.  The pattern on it makes it look like waves, especially if I play with the colour and tint of the layer (to make it a little more blue, rather than white).  However, I’m still deciding if I should keep it, or if it would be too much going on at once.  I also have some music picked out that I just need to cut and edit to fit five seconds.  All of that plus some breathing room to fit into seven days…   Wish me luck!

Here’s my work-in-progress…

What do you think?