June 2nd

Today was the last day of my project. I finished various bits and pieces off in my sketchbook and also printed various stills of my final film for the show. I also finished planning my board ready for the final show and presentation. I also wrote my evaluation.

Now that i've pretty much finished my project I'm very pleased with the final outcome. I think that the film achieves exactly what i said i would create in my statement of intent. Also i am proud of the film as I'v put the most effort into it i could. I now am looking forward to seeing people's reactions once they have watched it. I think that is the best bit, seeing if people like it and entertaining people! 

June 1st

Today i made the final touches to the DVD by creating the dvd cover and the disk image. I then printed all this and put the DVD box together. I used a special printer that also printed on the disk so this looked really great once all put together.

I also planned my board for the college show. 

May 31st

Today I made my DVD menu screen. I did this using Nero DVD Creator which worked really well. I was able to import the 4 files that would be on the DVD, the film, the making of, cast interviews and deleted scene. I then played around with the layout and added in a background image that i made on Adobe Photoshop. I then burned the DVD. This looked really good and professional so I am very pleased with it. 

May 30th

Today i just worked on updating my sketchbook and recording what i had done in the past few days.  

May 29th

I still wasn't happy with the quality of the video. Therefore i went back to Premier Elements and re-exported it trying various different compression types. This made no difference. I then tried exporting it into the Microsoft AVI file. This worked perfectly and the video is much better quality. I think that this is because it doesn't compress the film in such a clever way. The different compression types of a Quicktime movie were to complicated and so they didn't work as well for what i wanted. I was pleased for it to work. The reason i had been using quicktime movies was so that they would work on college's Apple Macs. This was something that maybe i shouldn't have done from the start and just kept to one operating system. 

May 28th

Today i started on the extras of the DVD. I cut together and exported the cast interviews and the deleted scene which was really quick and simple to do. 

I then made a start on the Making Of section of the DVD. I made this on Premier Elements once more by importing various pictures and scans of my sketchbook along with clips of tests and inspirations. This was a long process and took me a while. Once i had all the video footage cut together i then recorded myself narrating about it. I did this simply on the sound recorder on the computer and used a microphone to record myself. This was odd speaking to a computer but worked really well. I then put all this narration onto the video and image clips and exported the whole file. 

May 27th

Today i added the glow to the final movie. I used Adobe After Effects to do this and a plug-in by sapphire. This plug-in allowed me to add the kind of glow that i wanted to add. I added the glow and this was really successful and made the film look a lot more professional and finished. I then exported this. However when i exported this i found that the quality was poor and a couple of the animations had the same problem that they had weeks ago! Therefore i imported the video back into Adobe Premier Elements and then cut out these two animations that were wrong. On After Effects i then added the same glow to just these two animation scenes and imported the new scenes back into Elements into the final cut. This worked well and solved the problem but was a long and frustrating process!

When i exported the video once more i really wasn't happy with the quality of it and also the tune at the end. Therefore i went in search of a new tune to put on the end credits. I found a tune on the Internet that was much better and so i used this instead for the credits.