Creating My Final Piece

After i had my idea finalised and i knew what i was going to do i started to create my final piece. The software i used to create my final piece was Adobe Flash. I used this as it is a very good professional animation software and the fact that i could use it at school and at home (by downloading the free thirty day trial) meant i could spend lots of time on my final piece. This also meant i had a lot of time to perfect it and change things if needed.

I started to create my final piece at school to begin with. In lessons and some lunchtimes i would do a few seconds of my work. One thing i made sure was that i didn't do too much at once as i would keep facing mental blocks where i couldn't get my idea down or created in flash. This was a problem in some of the first sessions of my creating. But in later sessions i solved the problem by not doing too much or rushing it. I then started to create my final piece, by moving it from school via a memory stick to my home computer and downloading the thirty day trial of Adobe Flash CS3.

I then continued to create my work and finished it a home. The next thing i had to do was find a piece of music that fits well with the animation. Also another point i had to consider was that the music matched with all the hit points. A Hit Point is a point in an animation or film where something sudden happens. The music should match or reflect these hit points. After listening to many pieces of music i found a song title '21 Guns' by the band Green Day. The song and lyrics seemed to work well with the animation and reflected the theme of Remembrance Day and War. I did however have to edit the song on Audacity (sound editing software) very minutely so the hit points were matched with the song.

Once my animation was complete and i found the music i wanted i had to combine the two together. To do this i exported my flash animation file as a '.mov' file. I then imported the animation file and the music file into Adobe Premiere Elements. I then very simply added the two together, made sure they were in sync together and added a fade in and fade out transition to the music. I then exported it as another '.mov' file, which meant i had my final animation for the project done.