After Effects

Once we knew that we had to make the geek turn invisible, we began researching how to on the internet. We searched through endless YouTube videos to find something that we might be able to do. There were several little bits of videos that we really liked, for example:


We really liked the explosive return from this guy.



Really liked the transitions from this video.

No matter how many test and diffiernet videos we looked through, one program kept appearing, After Effects. This is a program from the Adobe range, which does of course mean that it would be very expensive to purchase. However, on our laptops, both of us have downloaded the trial version, meaning we can play around with the program at home. Also recently at school, the full Adobe range has been downloaded onto some of the computers that we can use. This is extremely useful for us because our laptops are quite difficult to work with for several reasons, and the school computers are a lot faster. One other problem is how difficult the program is to use and manouvre. Because the software is industry standard, with it being used in films such as Iron Man, The Orphanage and in quite a few video games for example, Tiger Woods games for PSP, PS2, Wii and Xbox, it is quite fiddly to use. However, we are teaching ourselves by playing around with it, and using different tutorials from Youtube and also Andrew Kramer, from Video Copilot.