Final Review of Ident

When I first came up with my new idea I wasn’t sure how I was going to set it, but then I decided I would try and make it look like the TV was in a corner of a room on the wall. I showed this by having the background as some wallpaper that you might see in a normal house. The way I did it was; get a picture of wallpaper then enlarge it into Photoshop on my background layer, then I just worked over it.

One of the more creative parts of making my ident was making the logo and the characters. First of all I decided to make the logo and because the channels is ‘the grid’ I thought it would be a good idea to make the logo a grid. I did this by going onto adobe firewall. I then added the text, which was hard because I had to choose a colour that would be easy enough to see over the grid.  Then back in Photoshop I had I to make my characters, which were a splodge and a shark like character. These characters were easy to make, I made them by just manipulating different shapes and putting them together. The shark character was the hardest to make because it originally looked a lot like Pac man so I had to work to make it look original and fresh.

The hardest part of the task was animating the ident and making it work, I found it most difficult because I accidently make my canvas size bigger then it was meant to be and therefore when making new frames it became very slow and crashed on some occasions. Apart from the speed of Photoshop I found it okay and I thought that the way I animated the ident was very smooth in places and showed a good understanding.

I created my own music for my ident in ‘garage band’, which is very good and easy to use software that helps you to create your own music. It didn’t take me long to make but when making it I think I got carried away and the final out come possibly didn’t match up to the ident as well as it could have if I had used different instruments.

When I finally found a computer that wouldn’t freeze when I opened my Photoshop ident it was very easy to export and open up into final cut. In final cut I tweaked it and made it more realistic and better. Then when exporting it from final cut I had to fiddle with the canvas size and resolutions but with help from Mr. Winter and I found this very easy.