Monday, September 29th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

f1.6 | Shutter 1/120 | iphone 12 mini – courtesy of Mr. Bohmann – Lake Morey – September 26th 7:10am

Colors are changing – get out there and get some shots – Vermont Foliage Map
Questions on the Vermont Foliage Assignment?
October 2nd – No School
CCV Class Friday – Meet in Lobby – If your school is not in session (CVU, MMU) buses are transporting students to CTE. Only SBHS is not. So you should be here.

10:10 Monday Mail

10:12 Intro to After Effects and Motion Graphics

Motion Graphics and Visual Effects are found in every show, movie, commercial and social media platform. At the core, motion graphics are designed to capture our attention and draw interest to the viewer. VFX (short for visual effects) are found everywhere. VFX are little animations.

Let’s kick off an exploration of VFX today. Over the next several weeks we’ll try:

Green Screening
Motion Tracking
Rotoscoping
Color Corrections
Compositor

(for each title above, you are looking at an entire career!)

Motion Graphic artists have a strong background in graphic design. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the field is expected to grow about 8% over the next ten years. Median annual salary is $99,000. (that’s about $1900/wk). The average salary in Vermont is approximately $74,265 annually (or $36 per hour) – so you’d be doing pretty well for yourself.

Adobe After Effects is a leading industry tool for animations, motion graphics and special effects editing.
Today we’ll look at Adobe After Effects – just the basics.
If I can get you to remember one thing (well, actually six things!) you will quickly become a master at After Effects.

There are Six Foundations of After Effects and the work in the following order as a workflow:

Composition
Layers
Animations
3D
Effects
Rendering

10:50 Break

11:00 After Effects continued…

Ok, let’s get some of the effects out of the way. There are a lot of effects in After Effects. For some guided practice, let’s take a look at some of the different effects including color, generative and distortion effects

For starters – we are going to make a descriptive effect together.

You cannot go wrong – effects can be layers and the combinations are endless!

Link to Google Doc with Steps if you get lost….