Christy R.’s blog

Ordinary bud blossoming into a flower of warmth.

Unique elements that I think can make a video ‘pop’.

- colors, colors alternates

- colors and object working correspondingly to each other.

- special effects are relative.

- varying shapes

- decent length

- appropriate music.

- focused, elements working each other out.

My video will start with many colors, then black, it will turn into a bud of green on a black background, the color of the background growing lighter as the bud starts opening up, and as the bud finishes blooming, the flower has powerful colors in it. Then in the core of the flower is the MTV logo. From the MTV logo a butterfly will pop up and start flying. It will be at a decent length, with shapes alternating, alternating colors, colors will work relatively to each other. The flower will be the main core of my focus and as the logo shows up, the logo becomes the focus. Then the butterfly as an outro.

 I want to convey a warm, relaxing, renewing feeling.

How long will my MID be? Perhaps 10 or 30 seconds. It would depend on the video, if I start realizing, ‘oh, I think I can work with this idea!’ then I will most likely keep it at 30. But if I become unmotivated because the program was hard to use/I start having other ideas, most likely a 10. If I stick through with it.

What music? I think I would use a sort of electro/trance music to make it seem energized because the bud was growing. Then, at the end, I want the music to alternate because of the MTV logo, and the same music all the way through the whole video wouldn’t fit either. By the end I want to have a sort of nature-like music, perhaps birds chipping. All of this either has to be an MTV template or something I would create myself.

Technical Specifications: I will most likely use Macromedia flash for this project.

Copied right from MTV + ME:

MTV logo: I will most likely use the white logo because then I could edit colors to it easier as opposed to the black one. The white one gives you more options to decorate also.

Actors, drawings, photos? Well, my MID would most likely be an animated clip. I will be using mostly Macromedia flash. I will be using many slides to make the video process more understandable.

Justifying against my own design specifications; well, there isn’t much else I could say other than I’ve been having them in my head while I was doing this, and I try to achieve as much out of my time as possible too. When I made my plan, I had inspiration and ideas in mind. When I did the storyboard drawings, I followed the plan.

I guess I’m pretty much done with the plan except for actually deciding the music I want to include. And, of course - I haven’t learnt much about Macromedia Flash so I would have to visit atomiclearning.com fairly often.

A few things I took note on:

Reverse motion: first you have the forward motion, then you copy the frames that make the forward motion, paste it somewhere else on the timeline, right click on the duplicate, scroll down and click ‘reverse frames’.

 Changing colors and alpha effects for a motion tween:  motion tweens are not for motions alone. You can alpha  and  fade pictures, you can change their sizes, make your images grow or shrink, etc.

Shape tween: it’s there to turn one shape into another. “The shape tween will only work with the basic primitive shape, you won’t be able to use symbols, or groups, in a shape tween.”

Shape hint: have two shapes, put them in shape tween motion. Go back to the first frame, go to ‘modify’, ’shapes’, and then ‘add shape hint’. A small red circle with an A will show up. The animation would look different, and it would look more like one form rather than a recreation.

Using a motion guide to create a motion tween: (wouldn’t work. I would need this though. Could always try experimenting around and try to get there anyhow.)

Importing sound(or pretty much any other files): file > import > import to stage/library > (navigate to file).

Although I am quite sure that there is much more for me to learn, I think these will be good enough as simple, basic, yet strong guides for starting.