This week allowed me to be really creative and think outside the box for my trailer idea. I put a lot of time and effort into it so I enjoyed how it came out in the end. I still need to think of the full actual story for the final project, but for a sneak peak at the creation you can watch my trailer and the whole process behind it on my post called Coming Soon! I also did three Daily Creates this week which can be found on my post called Inside My Creative Mind.
Figuring out how to actually create the video was the hardest part because I am not experienced with animating and I don’t know enough people who would be willing to act out the scenes for a live-action video, so I had to resort to using the game called Animal Crossing to make my trailer. I personally think the trailer came out cute but kind of goofy since it’s such a cartoony game and there was a lot of limits for how much I could portray a storyline from it.
The story was supposed to be how a peaceful island was taken over by highly advanced robots who crashed onto their land. The story is told visually so I tried my best to make it as clear as possible with the transition scenes. The final scene was shot from first-person point of view so it shows the other character’s shock and reaction to seeing a robot enter the town hall office. I think it was a good ending scene for the trailer because it leaves the audience to guess what happened next which helps for leading into the final project which will present the full story of what happened after the robots took over the island.
Creating it required recording multiple short 5 to 10 second long clips from the game. It was extremely tedious and required multiple retakes to get the scenes exactly how I wanted them to look. Camera angles and the filters mattered a lot to me because it helped with making the shots look more cinematic. Afterwards I took the video clips and connected them all into a full video using iMovie. I was also able to use Canva for the intro and outro. The intro I used a nature design background since it was supposed to be before the robots came and then for the outro it was represented with more of a tech design for the robots. Reviewing the video afterwards my biggest complaint was mostly the sound effects specifically the part with the crash explosion because it sounds too quiet. I am also concerned about when I make the full project because I have to tell a full story somehow without verbal audio so I have to learn how to either add in subtitles for dialogue or maybe speech bubbles somehow.
For this Daily Create I was supposed to use a random animal generator to see what new pet I would get. For mine I got a Bandicoot which I never really heard of so I had to look it up and it was a pretty interesting animal and would be a cool pet to own probably if it wasn’t a wild animal.
For this Daily Create I was asked if I could survive stranded if I had the necessary survival supplies. I wanna say yes that I could, but in a stressful situation like that I feel like I would fail and need someone to rescue me after a few days
For this Daily Create I was supposed to use a agent name generator to create a new secret agent. For mine I got the name Agent Green Archer and then I used an ai art generator to bring her to life!