Storytelling screen-grabs- scale and centre

If you want to have a career in Video editing, The best thing to do is to start with basic editing techniques.

Here, I'll show you how I edited a image to zoom in and out in a vocal point. First, you need to open up Final cut Pro:

First you will need to set your timeline cursor on the first frame of the image and double click on the whole clip. Your preview window will show the clip you have double clicked on.

above the previewed  clip will be three tabs. select the tab called 'Motion'. You will notice under the tab called 'Basic motion' there are four rows, 'Scale', 'Rotation', 'Centre' and 'Anchor Point', Each with respective dials and digits.

DO NOT TOUCH THEM!!

For now, you will need to click on two diamond shaped buttons, one in the 'Scale' row and one in the 'Centre' row. No more, no less.

You will now need to select either the end of the clip, or the start of the next clip. If you click on to the start of the next clip, MAKE SURE YOU PRESS THE BACK ARROW ONCE!!

Now you will need to return to the motion tab on your preview window. Now you can use the dials and levers. Start with the scale lever. This lever will shrink and grow the image depending on the position on the lever. Set the scale to '110' manually with the lever or by just typing 110 in the box to the lever's right. once you have done this, click on the diamond marked button in the  rotation row.

N0w in the 'Centre' row, simply type 1001.49 on the left box and -32.2 on the right box. You can also drag the image on the video window, but just type now for the sake of argument. Then Simply click on the diamond marked button on the 'Anchor point' row.

Once you've done that, you'll have something that looks like this:

Try it yourself! scale and centre in Final cut pro.

The Raven played by Vincent Price

The Raven is a poem written by Edgar Allen Poe; it illustrates how a man's sanity is challenged by a bird on a door.

Vincent Price is a great narrator for this story. His style is gentlemen like, while also having a sense of insanity.

Jabberwocky story

The Jabberwocky is a poem written by Lewis Caroll, who is more popular for Alice in Wonderland , hence why it seems that Alice is narrating the poem

Alvah and Leah- My Original characters

Alvah- The new look by ~Alvah-and-freinds on deviantART

So this is the new character design for my OC, Alvah. He had to be developed more for my animation course, but the character himself was created over a year ago, for a Final major project.
I even have a good story too:
Alvah is the prince of Rottingspam, which is now Nottingham. 1000 years ago, on Alvah's 18th birthday, he was abducted by a giant flying monster and ended up at the the realm of the evil countess, Leah;

Dark Lordess Leah by ~Alvah-and-freinds on deviantART
Who attempted to attain Alvah's hand in marriage, so she can claim his land.
When Alvah declined, she banished him to the dungeon.
While Alvah was contained in a dungeon cell, a Wormhole appeared in front of him. With a slight hesitation, he entered it and ended up 1000 years in the future.
And, now he's here.
But what of Leah? Is she still alive and searching for Alvah? If so, what will she be planning for him after dissapearing all those years ago?

interactive website research- Rayman raving rabbids

This is a screenshot of a video library from the Rayman Raving rabbids website.

the cartoon style of colours used really fits with the composition of the interactive library.

while the viewing video is shown at a reasonable size, the other videos in the library are shrunk to thumbnails to the viewing video's left and right. This is very helpful as it reduces problematic loading and having to search for the next video.

It would've been good to see more interaction to the websites in general, because it should be the websites main objective to appeal to the target audience as much as the game itself would

the thump and siren- Animation sounds

Storytelling project: film leader

This intro is a very old film number countdown, also known as a 'Leader'. This was usually seen in films way back from 1930-70's.
I'm planning to make my 'animated' story to a retro 1930's style, so this will be included in my final cut document.

How to story board, by Indy Mogul

This is a video which I came across when searching for storyboards. It shows how the storyboard came to be and how it is used to further construct the plot of the story. It also includes some tips to include onto your storyboard to further make the storyboard more unique.

Animatic example- Birds of a feather

This is a nice example of an animatic. The style itself only composes of one colour.

This is the style I'll be using for my animatic.