The Process of making my Motion Graphics Animation:

I am making my animation in Adobe After Effects because it is the most useful and easiest software to use for the purpose of making a short Motion Graphics animation on ‘How to use a Glue Gun Safely’. I firstly opened After Effects and then crated a new composition. I

had to make the size of the composition the same as the size of the canvas I used on Illustrator to make sure my images were not pixelated. The size of my composition was 1280x720. I also had to change the duration of the animation to 20 seconds. When the new composition was created I had to import my glue gun illustration into After effects by right clicking in the Project box and then selecting

import. I then dragged the glue gun illustration into my timeline and began to experiment with different ways it could be animated.

After I made the Glue Gun slide onto the screen smoothly by

editing the position of the Glue Gun on the screen, I changed the Opacity so it was faded out. This

then enabled me to make the title of my Animation clear and easy to read. I made the text come onto the screen letter by letter which was called ‘typewriter’ on the

Effects and Presets window on After Effects. I think this made the title bold as it drew in attention due to the typing sounds that I inserted to make it sound realistic. While the title was coming onto the screen I made the glue gun move by changing its position which animated it into a circle. I think this made my animation more interesting as there is more than one aspect on the screen to

look at in one frame.

After the text was all on screen and it was readable, I made the text fade out at the same time as the glue gun fading back in. To do this I changed the Opacity. I then wanted the Glue gun to get bigger so I was able to zoom into the nib of the Glue Gun with a Magnified glass. To

do this I had to change the position and size of both the Magnified Glass and the Glue Gun at the same time. I found this quite tricky because it was quite confusing but I got there in the end.

Initially, I wanted the screen to fill with CAUTION signs, however when I did this it did not look very aesthetically pleasing. Instead I made a CAUTION sign pop up in the middle of the screen and flash which in my opinion is more eye-catching and easy to see. I chose red for the text

because it connotes danger and warning.

After the CAUTION warning danger sign I thought that instead of having the text boring and unimaginative in a straight line I thought it would be great to have the text follow a path of a shape in the frame. I thought the easiest and most readable shape to have the text follow

was the circle of the magnified glass. This was quite tricky to do because it was fiddly to get the text to follow the same line as the circle. I then wanted a background colour change as white is boring and not very bold. I then thought it would be great and imaginative to make a

rectangle come out of the orange nib of the Glue Gun to fill the page and then become the background. The orange is bright and easy to see. To show the audience that the next caution and warning is about plugs, I made four plugs fall onto the screen by changing their position. I

also made them come onto the screen to boing sounds which made it more suitable and engaging to my audience.

I then made the text come onto screen with typing noises and making it look like people are typing. When the text says ‘shock’ I inserted a shocking sound as it is engaging. I also made a spark pop up and fill the screen. I then made the yellow fade into while to put the ending

details on. I made the glue gun slide carefully and smoothly onto the screen and then text came up like all the other text in my motion graphics with a typing noise.