Assignment 3 : Musical typography

For assignment 3 that is the musical typography project. We , Perfect Pixels chose a song entitled “If today was your last day” by nickelback. We chose this song because this song teaches us how to live your life and to appreciate every moment that we had. Basically , the theme of this song is about life and it is very encourageable and suitable song for young adults like the pre-university students.

The musical typography was done by using the Adobe Flash,Adobe After Effects,Adobe Premier,and Adobe photoshop.

In starting , we used the Adobe After effects software.

The first step is as below ;

First, we typed all the lyrics first by using the text tool as shown in the image above.We used Savings Bond font to type the lyrics of the song.

Then we compose the text by using different angles so that it would make the typography interesting.We used the selection tool,click the text layer,and choose the word that we wanted to rotate by using the transform tool and choose the angle that we wanted. The steps are shown like below ;

Now for the text color scheme,

We click the character tab and used fill color (which we used yellow). The result is a shown below. We used the same step for the red color to the other coloured text.

Done with the text, the next step is the camera angle.

First, click the layer tab > New > and choose camera.

Then click the video-shape icon and we choose the settings that we wanted to adjust the camera angle. The step is shown as below;

Now, to add the texture as the background of our musical typography video , we impoterd the image from Adobe photoshop.

We take an image from google >credits to the owner of the image. And we alter it using Adobe photoshop.We used the adjustment tool and we darken the image a little bit by increasing the vibrance effect.

And now for the credits, we used Adobe flash.

The setting that we used for the flash is shown as below ;

First, as usual, we used the text tool and type the names of all our group member.

For the image that shown In adobe flash, we import it to the stage from adobe photoshop. Then we convert it to symbol (CTRL+F8) so that we can adjust the movement of the image and the text.

And for the final touch,

We convert the swf file that we produced in Adobe flash to AVI so that we can combine with the files that we do in Adobe after effects to make a complete video of musical typography.

Here is the video!