Moving text

Moving text: The Daily Cough

The Daily Cough Video: Moving Text

Moving image I learnt how to put together through Jordan's workshop the other week. 

He showed us how to put motion text together on After effects and then because it was quite a struggle for me to pick up unfortunately I was only able to learn the one moving text and here were the notes he took for each step. I hope to learn the other variations for the Developing self unit.

 

Here is Jordan's notes below: 

1: Choose a handwriting-like font 
2: Select the pen tool. Making sure the text layer is selected, start drawing over the letters.
3: Effect > Generate > Stroke
4: Increase brush size on the stroke. Change paint style to ‘Reveal original image’
5: Click stopwatch for ‘end’, press U for keyframes and drag the keyframe to the end of the animation (6 seconds)
6: Drag the playhead to the beginning of the animation and change value to 0%

 

Front page of Newspaper

The idea of the front page occurred to me when we learnt with Jordan, How to make type move, sadly at this point in time I only managed to learn the one way of making type move was by making it look as if I wrote the title onto the page.  The catchy captions for the headliners work very well for the newspaper, wot the fashion fix, the cinema illustration on the front page  and with good headliners onto of the images to capture people's attention straight away. I think this front cover is in actual fact one of the favourable pages on the newspaper. It certainly grabs my attention. 

The Daily Cough: Front Page with Moving text

Here is the motion image. I put this altogether on an Abode programme called the following: 

Adobe Spark  for the layout of the front-page, the music with my recording of a cough at the end, for the comical effect!

After Effects for the motion graphics & Typographic Animation.

 and then creating the cinema illustration on illustrator and the COVID 19 sign on Adobe Dimensions. You could say I used Manu of the Adobe programmes to pull this off. 

The name of the newspaper came about after experimenting with logo design ideas for the newspaper and I came up with The Daily Cough as a Micky take on The Daily Mail, I wanted to take the Micky and put a bit of pastiche into the mix and use a bit of play on words.  Here is the logo designs I created for the newspaper below:

The Logos & Experiments

The reason why I didn't go with the logos was because when I learnt how to do the motion graphics the logos were out of the question ultimately.