Preliminary Thoughts on My Possible Final Project
I am thinking of a sequence that loosely portraits the evolution of flight. It will start with a butterfly, followed by an airplane, a rocket or spaceship, and finally some scene on the surface of Mars.
I know what I want to do, but are having a hard time wrapping my head on how to accomplish it with Photoshop and Premier. My original thought was to use animation, but that seems to be very complicated with Photoshop and Premier, impossible with what I know and have been able to research. I know I can accomplish the animation at some point, but not for the project deadline. Because of that I am thinking on "scaling down" how I am going to present my concept.
I watched the projects from other classes and seems to me many used animations which makes me wonder if they had taken an Animation class already.
This is not the proposal.
Some of the student work is in response to an assignment based on stop motion animation—simply generating a large series of small still images, importing them into Premiere, then trimming and sequencing them in a timeline to create the illusion of movement (like those old flip books we make as kids). While this process is not enormous in Premiere, it takes a lot of preplanning, and care in generating the original images. Other student work (the collages) were made using the technique that I demonstrated in class, importing a layered PS file into PR in order to apply key frames and duration to the layers. The latter seems to be what you are pursuing for this project. As we discussed in class, I recommend reducing the conceptual side of the idea to the basics and let the collaged images speak for themselves. It's eye catching and visually interesting as it is to see a butterfly break away from the still image, almost like cut paper puppets. As we try out new techniques, it's always important to let the process tell its own story and dictate the resolution, rather than forcing the materials to bend in the way that we wish. It can be liberating as well to keep things simple!
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