Intern Report: Week 5 (Sept. 29-Oct. 2)
With the company collectively recovering from the rush that was the Hilary Food Security job, business continued as usual, which seemed to be very little. We had a kick off meeting for a small independent film “The Stick Up Kids.” Don’t worry, no one else has heard of it either. They hired us to do a trailer for them. I watched the selects, and if those were the selects, it would be a challenge to make this film look good.
The design director, Kyle, had offered me an open desk in his office and some freedom to do some design work. This was a result of a conversation we had in which I let him know I had experience working in AfterEffects. He let me take the lead in designing the look and titles for this trailer. I was thrilled!
I had watched some of the footage, and there was some cheap gunplay in the opening scene, so I decided I would use a gun as an image. I made a stenciled desert eagle become the “I” in Stick Up, with the words springing up around the gun after it was cocked. It worked okay. David the editor, and Romina took a look at it and it wasn’t the direction they wanted to go. The film, in the long run, had little to do with guns, and they were only scene briefly.
After rethinking it, I had seen a lot of images of stacks of cash and talk of money in the dialogue. So I changed it to that route. I talked with Kyle and decided to create a background of a 100-dollar bill, and have the titles being printed on the bill where the serial numbers would go. We went with it. I created the images and animated the texts in AfterEffects, and it went pretty well with the tempo of the trailer.
And here it is! The titles I animated are the ones at the end starting with "Stick Up" through the title "The Stick Up Kids". Kyle did the rest.
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