I don't really have many fonts, so I went to dafont and grabbed me some funky looking font that I like, with the font I am going to have this at the beginning of the sequence and at the end.
I found one eventually, and I am pretty happy with this and have used it not just on my logo, but on just about everything.
Regarding the logo I haven't really done a lot I wrote the text on the background and then made it 3D but because I wanted two logos I had to make two different compoisitions and then include them in my sequence, I didn't add much effect to them I changed the opacity of one at the beginning to get a fade in kinda of effect, and then at the end I faded in the other one and made it grow in size gradually.
Whilst doing this I haven't mentioned about keeping a grunge feel to it, now i kinda forgot at first, but found out pretty quickly that it already had a grunge feel too it.
Im pretty much there now, I want to add some audio onto the background, not a clue what I am doing yet, although I think I'm going to have Nivarnas' Heart shaped box playing in the back off it, because it suits the video quite well.
I feel like I should speak about what I have done to the photos to make them work. Well I actually haven't done much with them, i created them using separate compositions and just included them into the main composition. Then what I did with them was made them a 3D layer since I am using a camera. When i entered them into the composition i deliberately didn't have them on screen this is so I can make it look like someone has just thrown the photo into the compositon.
Lighting is a nice thing on After Effects I hadn't really used lights before but I thought well im just gonna add one and move it around a tad and hey ho I got the gist of it pretty quickly and managed to create a smooth round edge look on my background which looked good. I played this through to see if the light would continue all the through the sequence, it didn't. Which got me thinking well, if like cameras lights are hard to move I will need to link it to my Null Object, which i did, and it worked!! So i was feeling pretty chuffed with myself.
Light on!
Light off!
I have had a pretty productive couple of hours and feel I have learnt a lot, I have finished the sequence now, although I just need to pop it into premier to render it, After Effects makes my files too big, which I'm not a fan off.
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