Ident Evaluation

Evaluation

On the return from the summer break I was still in motivated to work to a brief, as I was quite busy over the summer working on various projects I had set myself. The brief for making an ‘ident’, using after effects at first seemed quite simple. The only thing that I was worried about was learning after effects, as before id had a go before a few times and always got ‘blown away’ by the complexity of it. It was just not a program that I could learn for my self without tutoring a little bit. Once I had a few lessons in the programs, there were little things which I was told whch helped me a hell of a lot. After these few lessons on the programs, I then picked it up fairly fast.
I chose the fear brief, as I could have the opportunity to involve some of my favourite horror movies etc, have clips, I was wanting to do the fear as It was the best one for me out of the four.
My main idea for the ‘ident’ was to involve the psychological things which had always effected me when I was younger, these usually were things which were involved in death, execution devices, like the hang mans noose, the guillotine and various other torture devices. In my opinion these things are the most psychological devices to scare someone, or someone who is about to die. So I wanted to create something that might have involved something like this. So I came up with a ‘first person’ style view of the viewer about to die, dieing, and then coming back as a zombie somehow. So the view you see is like looking through someone’s eyes. The main part of the ‘ident’ would involve the part where the ‘1st person’ would be dieing, and this part involves going through some kind of tunnel, as if you were travelling from the physical self to the spiritual self hence going towards ‘the light’ or something in that way. After much careful thoughts it was decided to get rid of the first part of the ‘ident’, that was a short bit from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ the hanging scene, which was perfect for what I was wanting. Unfortunately it made my ‘ident’ way too long and didn’t seem to fit in with the other parts, seemed to look too ‘nice’ looking. The decision to get rid of that small scene from the ‘pirates’ film was good one as just the travelling through the ‘tunnel of death’ looked much better with all the montage of roto-scoped footage.
One of the most important issues when working to brief such as this, that would involve a lot of roto-scoping, as what mine did, is the time management. It is important for every other brief as well, its just I had to be extra careful as I had a lot of work to do and to fit other things around it, was a challenge. That is a thing which I am going to work on more in the future, is deciding on what kind of work ill be doing before I plan my time, as certain creative processes do take longer than others especially roto-scoping.
With the overall ‘ident’ finished with the soundtracks perfected, I am quite pleased with my final piece, there are certain things which could be improved in it, and they would be the quality of the roto-scoping, which is a skill in itself, to do it quickly.