Choosing the soundtracks for my animation was harder than I expected. All my tracks had to be edited to fit the 15 - 20 seconds which was challenging because you have to be careful where the music stops or it will sound like it just finishes in mid air. Using the last 20 seconds of the song helped but then the start was an issue.
Snake Splatter
For my Snake Splatter video I used a great part of Gwen Stefani's Yummy at the end which is just drums and sound effects of drills and things. As a storyboarded this animation before choosing the music I had to make the sound effects fit the action, the wrong way round. I had to change some of the actions so that they would work well with the music.
Using audacity, I cut the music off before the trumpets came in and then copy and pasted the end of the song which has the WEE! sound effect for the exploding square. It took some nudging backwards and forwards to make it sound right but I managed it quite well i think.
Lightning Tree
Again, for this video, I took the end of the song clip and pasted it onto the end of my composition. This was for the sound effect of Lady Gaga's face burning up, or in my video, the tree returning to the ground. I'm really pleased with how this dramatic music works with my scene. The lightning flashes were timed with the loud drums in the soundtrack using markers in After Effects, and I chose the music before I storyboarded or even decided what my idea was so I managed to get a good match between visuals and sound.
Shoes
Although I like this song (again i used the start and the end pasted together) I am not at all happy with the animation. I spent too long on the first two and ran out of time to make this one any good. I tried to hide the fact that nothing really happens with a shape that changes colour to the music but it didn't work. To do this I used the hue rotate effect - which i pick-whipped to an audio levels layer that I made using the 'make audio into keyframes' tool.
Overall I am quite happy with what I did. Hopefully my first two animations make up for the third. I learned a lot about after effects and I'm looking forward to using it on more complex footage.
I do have some screenshots but blogger wont let me upload any pictures :(
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