Assignment 4 Write-up

Name: Lauren Willoughby

Project # 4

Title/Date: After Effects Experiments/ 2/28/11

Synopsis: There are seven compositions that display the effects that I experimented with for this assignment.

• A girl imaging that she's firing lightning from her eyes and making it rain in the forest poster.
• An arcade game like composition with a yellow ship firing lasers at two gray ships.
• A T.V with a snow forest image on screen that loses the signal then disintegrates.
• A yellow plane avoiding and teasing the search light at a prison.
• A bottle of a glowing and bubbling chemical.
• Three colorful chemical bottles seen from top view and the blue one is bubbling.

Main Idea: Most of the effects I used I tested out first to see how they work, then messing with them led to ideas of what to use them for.

Theme: Just experimenting can lead to some interesting ideas and doing this I've come up with a couple of good ideas for future projects.

Main tension: Some of the effects I messed with didn't really seem to do anything and a couple were a little troubling.

Problem areas: Same as above.

Journal notes: I thought this was going to be tricky and frustrating. While at some points it was, it was fun to try out these effects and then coming up with ideas for compositions on what to use them for. I did enjoy the project some.