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Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At Freestyle Academy, the Explorations Unit allows Juniors to be able to choose a passion to explore and expand while improving on a particular skill set regarded as “21st Century Skills” (i.e. visual literacy, risk taking, self direction, etc.) Film students were instructed to explore a film-related passion or interest in which they did not have any experience, ranging from screenwriting, special effects, film noir, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For my explorations project, I decided to learn how to animate a dance video using After Effects. I intended on expanding the 21st Century skills of self direction as well as creativity, as I would complete the project individually and create creative animations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Process<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I broke my project into three main steps to make it easier for me to organize and plan out how much time I would spend on each step. These steps consisted of choreographing, filming, and animating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Choreographing<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first step to my project was to choreograph a dance. I spent about a week choreographing a 30 second hip hop piece in my garage, and filmed myself with my phone throughout the process to see how it looked and improve it. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

2. Filming<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second step was recording the dance on camera. I set up two lights in my garage at 45 degree angles to where I was facing in order to create shadows and depth to my plain background. I spent two nights filming until I was satisfied with a take and made sure I was in focus for its entirety. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

3. Animating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third and most tedious step was to animate. I spent a total of more than 15 hours animating frame by frame in Adobe After Effects, then overlaid glowing effects on the brush strokes. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Infographic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After learning how to create infographics and other posters in Digital Media using Adobe Illustrator, I made my own infographic highlighting the three steps to my project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final Production<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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