Thursday, 7 January 2016
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Final Touches
For the opening of my video I aimed to create a silhouette landscape as inspired by the style used in the Catch Me If You Can opening. This was meant to be an establishing shot of the skyline in Miami Dade, where Trayvon was from.
I added my own style by using a more realistic colour scheme, and round lines in the clouds in the water.
I had a lot of layers to work with, more than I usually have. This made it quite hard to edit as After Effects ran a lot slower than usual.
I wanted to create the effect of a time lapse by showing the changing colour of the sky.
I expiremented with different fonts for my title. My research showed that most films use sans serif fonts. I decided to use Kailasa for subheadings and Gujarati for headings.
I recorded a voice over for the opening in order to give the audience some context to what the story would be able. I used audition to edit the clip to sound deeper like in Trayvon's voice. I also edited out long pauses to fit with the motions on screen.
Using this present in audition helped to make the vocals sound a lot clearer and without background noise.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Black Lives Matter Quotes
I think it would be useful to end my animation with a quote to summarise the issue at hand. These are some quotes that I found inspiring:
"But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down."
Chris Rock speaks about the isolating experience of being a successful black American with Frank Rich for New York Magazine. Rock points to the lack of other black patrons at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel overlooking Central Park the day of the interview to illustrate lingering inequality. [Link]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/black-lives-matter-quotes_n_6277412.html
“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
"You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you're black, you're dead."
- David Simon, The Wire: Truth Be Told
“In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/trayvon-martin
"I think moving forward we need to educate ourselves as a community on the gun laws, on the laws, on the statutes. We need to come together more as a whole, not individual people, not individual races, and religions. We need to come together as God's people. We need to start learning each other, understanding each other. You can't just judge a book by its cover. Something is wrong in so many ways to say that someone is suspicious just because you don't know them." -- Tracy Martin
"But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down."
Chris Rock speaks about the isolating experience of being a successful black American with Frank Rich for New York Magazine. Rock points to the lack of other black patrons at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel overlooking Central Park the day of the interview to illustrate lingering inequality. [Link]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/black-lives-matter-quotes_n_6277412.html
“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
"You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you're black, you're dead."
- David Simon, The Wire: Truth Be Told
“In this day and age where humanity is lost by so many, can a young, black child of God be put on trial for his very own murder."
~Elissa Gabrielle”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/trayvon-martin
"I think moving forward we need to educate ourselves as a community on the gun laws, on the laws, on the statutes. We need to come together more as a whole, not individual people, not individual races, and religions. We need to come together as God's people. We need to start learning each other, understanding each other. You can't just judge a book by its cover. Something is wrong in so many ways to say that someone is suspicious just because you don't know them." -- Tracy Martin
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