Major project - Behind the scenes

Before opening up any programs for editing, I briefly went over all of the material and sorted it out into folders, separating videos from audios. When that was set up, I’ve opened the program and started the editing. To work in a more organized manner, since the video is going to be focused around information from audio, I’ve started with stitching all audio material in order following the script and once that was done, the video/background visuals was developed.

This is a screenshot of the making of the first graphic in the video, using an animated mask to split a graphic of the USA in two, representing 6% of the US population.

This effect was achieved by animating a mask splitting through the graphic, after that was done, I duplicated the graphic and inverted the mask, this way the graphic is split into two, but it seems like one graphic. The bottom part of the two graphics was given a noise effect and an outline on the top, this separated the two graphics like seen in the screenshot.

The second graphic was a much richer effect than the first, thus it took a lot of time to make and render. First job was to create an illustration and import it into the editing software. After putting 5 of the illustrations on the composition, representing the anonymous people, several effects were used to give the illustration a 3D look.

A bevel was applied first, this gave the graphic a rounded edge, then a semi-transparent fractal noise to give it a stone texture. To finish up, the whole composition was given a lens effects and 3D rotation, this sold the 3D effect better.

This animated graphic was used as a preset for later effects during the interview, mostly to save time as I was running out of time after fully editing the introduction and the outro.

The outro by far had the richest effects out of the entire video, consisting of a realistic screen videography effect, using a repeating semi-transparent red, green, blue stripes pattern on top of an image to simulate a screen and then replicating the camera effects used before.