Visual effects editing guide

Visual effects editing guide

Our animation was mainly based around a hand and arm movement where different images appear will then appear into the opening and closing hand.
 We firstly had to ensure that when we were flipping our cards that contained a picture of someone who has been helped by the charity we had to make sure that the pictures where put back into the exact position otherwise the animation would look very unprofessional. We also had to make sure that we was taking a right amount of picture with the same amount of pictures in each shot otherwise again it wouldn't flow very well. We used IstopMotion to create this animation. We used this software as it allowed us to put together all the pictures that we took and the software allows us to play it back to see if it worked and was a professional well flowing animation. After this was done i imported the file into Final Cut Express where i would add fades, edit it to a sound track and to add text to the advert.

"Visual effects (commonly shortened to Visual F/X or VFX) are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects involve the integration of live-action footage and generated imagery to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or simply impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer generated imagery has recently become accessible to the Independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable animation and compositing software."