Final Project Plan

Pitch:
I am going to create the titles and text for my documentary about the Austin animal shelter.

Proposal:
There will be a short title intro that will be in 3d and involve particles and a moving camera. This will be about 15-20 seconds long. There are two parts of the film that will show newspaper headlines and for this I will animate the clips using a camera.
I am following two white dogs in the film. To introduce them I will show a clip of them in the cage and then it will pause with two boxes appearing around their heads to form a snapshot of each. These snapshots will float up as I zoom in on them and their names, Queenie and Rhino, appearing above their heads. For this I will need to motion track the screen shots of them into boxes and motion track their names to the boxes. I may do this for a couple of the other dogs that have parts in the film, but I will definitely do this for Queenie and Rhino because I need more footage of them but can't get it since they've already been put down. There will also be a closing title sequence that will be about 20 seconds.

Since I'm not done editing this documentary yet, things will probably change around a lot so I will have to keep working on this all the way up until the very end.


Schedule:


week 1: type out text, gather the screen shots and newspaper articles, and all the text to be in the credits

week 2: start basic motion

week 3: motion track, finalize text motion

week 4: polish everything

Particles

Immediately when we started doing particles I thought of a zombie head exploding so that's what I did for this project. I took a black cut out of a zombie that I found online, animated it a little, and then bam and some red particles spray out of his head. I was kind of thinking about Kill Bill when I made this. Particles are fun.

Motion Tracking

For some reason this motion tracking stuff went over my head at first, but then I figured it out after a few days of just playing around with it.

First I took this footage of my dog Spooks which was not that smooth:




Then I stabilized it, added his name, and tracked it to his collar.