My Photo Story

So, this was definitely an interesting process all around. I had numerous different ideas that I wanted to incorporate into this project, however, due to the complexity of some of my ideas a lot of them were thrown out the window. My main two ideas just didn't seem to work for me as photo stories, so I figured I would save them and try them out as video stories some other time. Then, I moved onto telling the story of a song. When I was trying to come up with my song I was listening to my Ipod in my car and Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire came on, I immediately thought "Perfect!". So, I took that idea and ran with it.

Once I got my plan together I started going over some ways to jazz it up a bit in my head. I came up with a really neat thing to do during the chorus, then after about an hour and half or wrestling with After Effects, I got it to work on a stock photo. But, it was late so I decided to save the animation idea and reapply it to my project the next day. Well, when it came to to reapplying it, none of my settings saved, so it was basically a blank animation. So unfortunately for my project, that little animation idea was not used because of time constraints. I also spent a good deal of time gathering photos, because my particular project had a lot of different photos to use.

All in all, I think my project turned out pretty well. I like the use of different transitions throughout to keep it going. I wish I could have had more time to apply the animation that I had intended, but oh well. Also, I think my titles sequences are a bit weak due to the fact that I did not play with this version of After Effects long enough before plunging into that part of it.