Firstly, I went onto Photoshop where I created the Captured
title. We decided to replace the ‘E’ with the YouTube sign, which would
eventually glitch. The font I used is Serif and the text is in black to conform to
the common conventions of horror titles.
The next step as to put the title into After Effects in
order to create a gif.
The glitch would need to have a distorted effect. The
YouTube video told me how to distort the whole image so I had to find a way of
only distorting the YouTube logo. I did this by making the adjustment layer
smaller just to fit over the logo as seen below.
The glitch wouldn’t be happening the whole time. On the
Cabin in The Woods the glitch happens around every few seconds but there is an
irregular pattern. So I cut the length of the glitch down and duplicated it.
Then I was able to stagger the glitch out so it happened irregularly the
timeline below shows this.
The Cabin in The Woods website didn’t just show distortion.
There was also noise layered on top of the distortion. Therefore, I tried to
recreate this.
However, due to the logo being curved around the edges it
was hard to make this effect. So I tried to make it so only part of the logo
had noise over it when it glitches but the shape still didn’t fit the logo.
I tried adding different types of noise to see if it looked
any better. But the shape was difficult to work with and the noise didn’t fit
correctly.
I decided that the distorted effect looked the best so I
rendered the clip. Lastly I would need to change it into a gif. To do this I
had to save this idea as several photos and transfer these to Photoshop where I
made it into a gif.
The final step was to place the gif onto our website design. I put the gif on loop so that it would keep replaying.
This was the final gif:
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