Here in my Room

Here's the finished piece. There have been a lot of changes made due to time constraints. The original storyline had two 'ideas' fighting each other at one point but animation takes more time than I realized. Though I must admit animating is a lot of fun, I think I will refrain from doing it for school projects from now on. Using the same shots, I was able to construct a much shorter storyline where the 'idea' simply does not want to be forgotten and seeks my attention; but as soon as I need an idea, I suddenly don't have one. The video does end abruptly but that's because it lines up seamlessly with the beginning of the video to form a loop.

None of the sound is actually from the video footage but I hope you can't tell for the most part (credit to freesound.org). There are actually about 20 sounds used in this short video. I didn't think I would need so many but every time I watched it I noticed something new that should have made a sound. I spent too much time trying to line up the tapping of the pencil but in the end it turned out 1000x better than the original sound when I was filming which strangely didn't sound like a tapping pencil at all. Like I said before, I kept the sounds down to foley and no music because I just liked how ordinary it sounded while something so strange was happening on screen.

I feel like all year my ideas for time based have exceeded my knowledge and skill with editing software; the most valuable thing I think I will take from this project is the experience I got with Final Cut and After Effects. Now having used the software, I feel like inthe future I will have more freedom when coming up with ideas now that I know what I can actually do with the programs at hand. I'd also never had to borrow equipment from the school before so learning what equipment is available to us will also be very helpful in the future.