final video. there are still some things I'd like to do like make the type better and some of the audio, but I'm okay with where it is now (and really have to work on other assignments)

edit: okay after presentation I made some of the font size differences more obvious and changed a transition or two.

video;

I have animated all the text. added the birds flying at the start that fredy made. I also did some minor bits of animation of the gannets and plastic bits with the mesh distortion tool - to make them move a bit more smoothly and like they're more alive? eg the neck bending forward when it's feeding the baby, and feathers moving a bit.

some of the text animation needs more work - especially the last few sentences [over one million -- four times as much] i think it should be less animated - or all lines as much maybe. it's hard to focus on that and the map with rubbish at the same time (although the speeding up of rubbish at the end brings focus to that part then, which is important.

I also lined up the text more so that it's consistent throughout the video - but also so each individual part looks good too. there are two different margin widths, one half of the other, and I tried to line up certain lines or have things in the same place. I also used three font sizes - 130, 150 and 180. 

I still need to move some bits back or forth slightly so they fit with the music plinky sounds, and also add some more sound effects for the text and other bits. the audio preview on after effects isn't working for me at the moment so it's hard to do that - I can only hear the music when I render it.

updated video. Added the correct font, but still need to animate most of it and place it better? I also added the graph part and fixed some timing in the diving part. It's still too fast in places though....the after effects preview doesn't play at the right speed for some reason? also something happened to the layer of sand that the birds in nests are sitting on which I only just realised.

More Font examples

'Oswald' Font

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Oswald

Link to google font 'Oswald',
I like this font for our blog, but need to find a different font for the video

Font Examples

progress on video. I sped up the music which makes it work better, but there are still parts that are too fast. added all the pre-compositions that fredy made, and more sound - some of which also need to be louder/quieter. and there are a few things I haven't added yet. and the text is still placeholder.

rough video - is missing various parts that Fredy is making, and also the text is not animated at all. the timing is really weird, I think....it's too fast for the music? we really need to find better music.

Over the weekend we made all of the assets we need for the video, and I put them all into 5 different photoshop files, so we both have the same images. now I am going to make the main background parts of the motion graphic and Fredy will make pre-compositions of the smaller aspects - eg birds flapping/clouds moving and subtler bits of animation.

(the gannet pictures are ones we found and stitched together different parts before I painted over them to make them slightly less photographic looking)

some photos i took of rubbish to use in the video. we could also use the recycle symbol from the bag as our recycle symbol asset?

every thing we need to make for the video:

• ocean for map, ocean for underwater
• small birds flying in
• nz/aus map part
• dead bird falling down
• 'plastic pollution' words floating
• diving bird - with changing wings and beak part?
• sand
• footprints
• ocean going over sand

• plastic around the first falling bird
• bits of rubbish/plastic for the ocean
• the main piece of plastic that the bird picks up 
• bird standing feeding baby
• baby bird, with plastic bits inside
• dead birds falling, with plastic on them
• dead bird on sand, with plastic on it
• tiny pieces of plastic for the map  part
• recycle symbols
• bird on water (reuse standing one?), with plastic on it

text (done in AE)

• 10% of all seabirds breed in nz
• but nz seabirds are also the most affected by 
• one milion seabirds are killed by plastic each year
• so how can you help?
• 80% of all marine pollution comes from land
• birds are killed by eating plastic instead of fish
• or one plastic bag tangled in their wings
• over one million plastics were collected from nz beaches between 2011-2013
• if everyone in nz picks up one piece of litter today
• four times as much litter would be off our beaches,
• our oceans,
• ..and our seabirds.

website concepts

multiple videos:

single video:

This one (above) seems like the most effective concept - with the main info (video) in the sky and extra under the surface. If we had time, it would be cool to do a parallax effect with that (and some clouds?) but I've never done parallax before so maybe not.

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a wireframe for that. unsure if we want a top nav that links down to the text/info stuff?  made the box that is wide with the ocean background (instead of having the sky + sea on the main background because then when you zoom it won't align with the text?) have the id #info just in case we do want to link to it. but then also - the video is important so do we want people to skip it? they can still scroll down the normal way if they want.

full video

still need to make the timing slower, since the final render always seems to be faster than what's in AE....

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a slower version, also with some updated frames

intro & outro video

intro

outro

Happy Bird Video

Dead bird Video

original storyboard (from last week)

video 2 (option a)

video 3 (option b)

final video