Month: March 2020

MAR 5 Thu / INTERNSHIP JOURNAL: Day #6

Fitness center project

• Orange hallway walk scene – still stressed show math symbol in her head 2+1@#$^
• Shaking robe scene – shaking off negative vibes. Add text animation 
• Lifting – text animation maybe using masking?

MAR 2 Mon/ INTERNSHIP JOURNAL Day #5

I showed him what I made the last week and got feedback and After Effects templates from Prof. Vargas. He told me to make title animation specifically using the quote “You challenged your mind. Now challenge your body.”

At the end of the day, I finished the animation for the given quote using tracking animation, and got more feedback.

1. Split the text into 4 shotsYou challenged / your mind / Now challenge / your body.
2. In the intro : Take “where tech ~ take you” and move the shield logo to the center
3. Might have to make it longer
4. Or apply this style to the main tagline like
   “challenge” “your” “mind” 
5. At 13 sec : take out “at” and add “FITNESS CENTER”

FEB 27 Thu/ INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : Day #4

I got to assist Prof. Vargas with Photo-shoot for Nursing department in the new Academic building. Photography is not one of my strengths, and I’ve never been to any professional photo-shoots, so it was very interesting to see what it’s like to work with professional photographer.

Since I don’t have any knowledge, I didn’t get to help set up the Camera and lighting equipment, but I got to take a look at his camera/light setup for photo-shoot. Prof. Vargas himself took a picture of the setting, so he can remember next time.

Another thing I learned is how to handle a large group of people. We took a shot of about 20 students and faculty members and took individual shots as well. At the individual shooting, Prof. Vargas always asked everyone’s name and built a rapport with the model, and he asked models to say “Watermelon”. It made everyone smile and curious why watermelon? It turns out that the word “Watermelon” generates natural smile rather than saying “Cheese”.  That was very fun method.

FEB 24 Mon/ INTERNSHIP JOURNAL : Day #3

Last week, other two interns and I worked on storyboard and mock-up shot as a part of Pre-production together. Today, as other two interns specialize in video shoot and editing and I specialize in motion graphics design, they have moved on to production stage and I started working on motion design sketches. I was also told to go ahead and make mockup animations and effects in the interim rather than waiting for the complete footage.

So I explored with more effects and tutorials such as tritone, text outline motion, screen slice with masking, and gradient ramp in After Effects, and made short title animation.

FEB 20 Thu/ INTERNSHIP JOURNAL

The second day at internship, we had another intern hired for video shooting and editing, and we took a tour at the new building in order to make a storyboard for City Tech Fitness Center Promotion video.

We used gopro camera with Zhiyun gimbal – Camera stabilizer, and video shooter interns’ own mirror-less cameras to shoot test shots and mock up video. As I was discussing with video shooters I realized I need to familiarize myself with Video production terms. After we came back from Academic building, we built the storyboard on a whiteboard with post it papers.

FEB 13 Mon/ INTERNSHIP JOURNAL

The first day at the office of image and visual communications at City Tech, I was pretty excited because I heard from my classmate that this internship offers a lot of freedom to explore and practice motion graphics skills. I brought my own laptop with my own subscription of Adobe creative suite as I was told at the interview.

Prof. Vargas showed me the office and introduced me to the other intern who will be working closely with me in terms of promo video production. We also had a meeting with all interns.

After Prof. Vargas explained to me that I would be helping him design promotional videos for City Tech, he gave me City Tech brand guidelines with font families, showed me what other former interns designed, and told me to design and explore motion graphics with the logo and slogans so he can add that to the library.

So I made intro animation for City tech watching tutorials, and got a mock up video from Co-intern who is a Video shooter/Editor.