Motion Design: You Know What I Always...

MOTION DESIGN PRODUCTION DESIGN AFTER EFFECTS

"You Know What I've Always Wanted?"

Overview

Class Project: Visual Design for Print and Screen

Professor Ahmed Ansari

Software Used:

Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustator

Timeline:

4 Weeks

Our challenge was to select a piece of media between thirty seconds and one minute in length and use the motion design principles to convey what the viewer couldn't see on screen.

For my piece, I chose a scene from the Syfy series Wynonna Earp between Nicole Haught and Waverly Earp. The scene leads into their first kiss and my goal was to create a subtle romantic scene that conveyed the emotion.

Capture of a Google Doc with text from the audio clip and observations about voice changes.

Transcription

After finding the scene that I wanted to use, I listened to it on loop and listened for any changes in how the characters were speaking. I recorded all of those observations on a Google Sheet.

Storyboard

The next step was to storyboard. Since this was one of my first experiences using motion design this way I wanted to create as many pieces as I could to be sure that I knew what I wanted to accomplish over the next couple of weeks.

First Animatic

I imported the images from my storyboard into After Effects to see if what I was seeing in my head was giving me the effect that I wanted.

After meeting with my professor, we agreed that the general concepts were okay but the fonts were too heavy and the scene would be better served by a serif font that captured the romance.

Dark and moody mood board of images associated with Wynonna Earp

First Mood Board

Since timing was short I decided to create a board with various typefaces and images that were associated with the source material that I could refer to.

Final Moodboard

The final mood board ended up being more romantic and leaning on the color palette set by the comics. The typefaces were serif type that reflected a romantic feel.

Make the pallette brighter. I showed this to my professor and while they liked the final design, another designer suggested a brighter more off-the-wall palette.
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