Beyond the Camera

Introduction to After Effects

In beyond the camera, Mark took the lesson for the introduction of Adobe After Effects. I remember last year doing something similar with a picture of a bumblebee and sunflowers on Photoshop, but this time we used After Effects to get the bee to move. It was quite difficult at first, but because we had instructions to follow on the handout it then became quite easy. The bee had to fly around the sunflowers until it landed on the one we edited in, it had to be 6 seconds long so therefore had to make the bee fly around in all sorts of directions to fill up the time. The only part I sort of struggled with was to get the bee to be flying in the right position, sometimes he was flying backwards so I have to alter the rotation button a few times but got it in the end. After this short exercise I feel more comfortable using After Effects and would like to use it again in the future for similar projects to become more fluent in the software.