The logo could’ve been more unique however the ‘X’ had a black background and it was very difficult to remove this smoothly, I tried using tools on Photoshop such as the magic wand and quick selection but this didn’t work. Alternatively I tried to get rid of the background using word but this didn’t work either.
This wasn’t necessarily a problem however it just caused stress for me and Callum as it was yet another task we had to do on top of everything else. The backing track was a task for the other members in our team to do, however they quickly gave up and me and Callum ended up doing it. We skimmed through some of the songs we had on our phones to try and find an’alien’ like backing track.We ended up using the backing track to Post Malone’s Rockstar.
When using the alien greenscreen we had to import an image behind to replace the green background, one problem we cam across was the fact the images we took would become blurry when enlarged so Callum ended up finding an image of Sutton park off of the internet.
We then added the audio, this would be the speech for the transport scenes at the start of the film as well as some audio for the aliens. This was probably one of the biggest problems we faced.At first we used a text to speech generator but I didn’t think it made the advert look very good, the voice was very robotic and wouldn’t pronounce certain things correctly. We spent a while trying to find a good text to voice generator without noticing the obvious resolution of having someone recording themselves saying the text. This is when we had James record the speech for us, this worked perfectly, a lot better than I expected.
It took a lot of tweaking the length of the videos and the placement of certain clips to ensure that the length of the advertisement stuck to 30 seconds, as well as everything fitting in with a good amount of time to be shown. Everything fitted perfectly, however we faced another problem.
Upon showing our teacher our completed advertisement we were alerted that maybe people wouldn’t really understand what our advertisement was advertising. With no where to add speech, me and Callum thought it would be a good idea to incorporate our polygraph poster into the advert, the last scene would simply dissolve into this then our logo. This and the fact that I just didn’t think adding more audio would fit in with the advertisement we had already made. The others agreed this was a good idea.
The problem we faced by adding these two extra images was 1, that when adding one image and image that was already on there would delete, and 2, when we added the transition it would change the shape of the planet poster from a rectangle to a square. This doesn’t seem like a big issue but when it dissolves into this image the square shape is highlighted which looked odd.
We resolved both of these issues by moving the images onto different lines on the timeline,and by using a different transition and seeing if that changed the shape. It didn’t, so we changed it to the original transition and it worked fine.
Originally the last recorded scene cut off to black and dissolved into the logo, we wanted the same thing to happen with the planet image. Now, the last recorded scene cuts off and dissolves into the planet, then dissolves to black then dissolves into the logo. We had to add in a plain black image between the two or else it would have dissolved straight from the poster to the logo which didn’t look right.
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