Thursday, September 24th

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

CCV Class on Friday – meet in Lobby at 9:45 – leaving for bus at 9:55
Friday is the midpoint of the quarter – are you behind? I hope not
Today as National Education Technology Day and …. National Pot Pie Day
Sweatshirts – a look at the final 3 designs today – mounted on a template

10:10 Photography Review

Let’s see what you know…. about manual mode and photography in general so far….

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Visual Effects / Motion Graphics Intro

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 $105k. (that’s about $2000/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

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…