Assignment 3 - Ken Burn Effect

I used After Effects for the first time to do this assignment. I had a hard time learning how to use the software, thus the first few version of the videos were not at its best.

Let me describe the two ideas first.

For NUS's video, the idea was to portray the feeling of an all-rounded educational experience in NUS. I brainstormed quite a lot of ideas and hope that the idea I have chosen will be unique and simple. At first, I wanted to use alphabets to describe NUS.
For instance, A -> Arts and Social Sciences, B -> Business, C -> Computing and etc. However I think that its too draggy and the idea isnt very good.

And that led me to come up with another idea which was related to alphabets too, but this is way better as it is SHORT and SWEET.

N from NUS refers to 'Nurturing students and Talents'. I will show pictures of students at work and impose Ken Burns effects on them.
Next, US from NUS refers to 'Us savouring fun, food, the little things and friends'.

The video is meant to let future undergrads to feel a sense of home and belonging to NUS. The music and pictures are welcoming and heart lighted too.


This is the first version of the NUS kenburn's video.
Looks laggy and pixelated on youtube (no idea why =( ) I am sorry for the poor quality.

But stay tune to the 2nd version (which is also the final one- hurray!) as I am uploading to youtube now.
I've changed the music, effects, fonts... but the main idea stays put.

Alright, this is the 2nd version, with the last part NUS logo effects changed to a better one.

The final version is similar, with the words 'Nuturing Students, US savouring ....' stay at the bottom of the picture so that viewers will not be confused by the pictures.





Next, for the CNM's video.. I actually thought of a simple and typical idea that most of the students would have thought of. The idea was to show case student's work and activities of CNM. And during that time, I was involved in an exhibition 'Random Blends', which show case cnm students' work like photography, game design,videos and storybooks. I decided to include the element of 'Random Blends' inside the video too.
However comments from the first critique session were that maybe I could use a more unique idea rather than a typical idea. Thus I came up with a totally different story idea.

I shall save you from reading the description here, thus view the following video. =)
This is the 1st version of CNM ken burns video.



And then, during the 2nd critique session, comments were that it wasnt really linked to promote CNM. (*faint*)

I decided to change the whole idea back to the first one I have thought of.
Simple is good at times. =)

After some midnight oils, this is the FINAL version of CNM, a totally changed idea from the first idea. =)
*wipe sweat*