my twin screen project was another tough project to come up with based on the fact the the after effects program was new and me personally i didn't like the amount of limited time we was given on this project because we was learning and struggling to create something at the same time but like my mum always says you have to flow with the pressure my only concern was becoming predictable with my ideas and how i express my concepts with my art and struggling to use different programs that am not familiar with and then using it to create something am happy with a program am not happy with but i guess greatness is stepping out your comfort zone and still coming up with something spectacular so after a month of familiarizing myself with after effects and grasping the concept of twin screen my first idea was to use my poetry and perform one piece but splitting myself into two and having it done like a back and forth between myself
this idea was scrapped based on the fact that i have been relying on my poetic talent a bit too often i didn't want to do it because i felt wrong and less confident since i have basically used this idea for similar projects in the past
i was still annoyed about what to actually create because i am my own biggest critic so i was running out of time and i had ti use my brain so i embraced my athletic side and used my game recorded footage to inspire and idea that was a dream of mine of being on TV and hearing my name being announced
this show inspires me almost daily due to the passion and intellect they show when speaking on sports and players racial issues within and around sports and the way all three are able to balance jokes sarcasm and a level of seriousness that i really admire
so with that i began to form my second part of my twin screen and decided i was going to commentate on myself playing basketball and i was scared of the idea because playing and commentating is completely different even though the sport itself links the two genres together
so then came my set up for how i wanted to look as a presenter and i hired out a studio and began to imagine what and how i am going to look like and by grace the studio had different types of cameras around so i decided to include them in my shoot to give my look a proper studio feel and the TV cam in handy in post production as i created a mask around the television and duplicated my basketball game to run in the background and changed the colour's around and gave the tint a black and white effect to represent past events even though the footage plays at the same time these changes enhance the overall created images that created with some guidance and tips from Ethan who is A lot more skilled than ,e in using after effects so then came the last part of post production after silencing the second basketball footage i had to lower the first one so the atmosphere wouldn't dominate my commentary and what i gave in is what i could come up with also adding in some fading in and out effects to make the transitions from when i start talking to when i stop and also getting the footage to match what am saying when i am talking about a specific player was a plus i think a down side to my work would be if the overall footage was longer and if i Incorporated the team logo and added it in sliding past the two images that would of been a great plus but oddly after i had sent the Farnham lions logo to myself the image couldn't be loaded and i couldn't use it but apart from that i think i still am able to sell my presenter character very well and you can here the different in speech tone and eye contact as i am talking and it is a project that started very bitter but in the end i ended up happy with what i came up with
