In February, we had a professional editor join us media class in the morning to teach us about the Adobe After Effects programme and enhance our editing skills by showing the class how to use different tools. He talked about the different components to a project such as the text insertions, cuts, and image effects. Ben, the editor, has done work for numerous music companies, singers, and bands, and product companies such as amazon.
To help us with our practice project, he provided us with a smoke clip that he had stored for his own projects. This clip was given to us to be inserted as a background and/or special effect for our sequence, the short clip is 1 minute and 19 seconds long and it can be used to create a mysterious effect, a scary effect, or create a sense of danger to set the atmosphere since smoke is normally seen as a deadly sign.
We found two unnerving or creepy cartoon images off the internet to be put into the sequence to relate to the horror genre.
On top of the images, we put our project title ‘Hidden n Plain Sight’ with a narrow font to act as a scary but effective method to introduce the film and the characters.
In a small project, we used a blending tool to combine the two backgrounds together. To do this we selected how much we wanted the two components to merge with each other and edit them to fit so they are both effective in our project. We used the smoke to ‘hide’ the creepy characters in the background because it looks professional to the audience since the movie title includes the topic of being “hidden” since the woman holding a syringe with blood on her uniform is revealed in the bottom right-hand corner by the smoke.
The smoke was used to create a dark atmosphere for the movie and the horror genres are normally used to intrigue the audience using scary moments and effects.
We used the 2nd picture in the sequence to add to the effect and the faded transition we had allowed the pace of the sequence be slow. The slowness of the title sequence will add to the tension because the audience will be calm enough to be startled easily and will not know what will happen next.
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