This course is FULLY HRDF Claimable

Topics covered in this TWO FULL-DAY real-life class:

COURSE OUTLINE:
Day 1:
• Introduction to After Effects: What is the purpose of After Effects & how these effects add to the end results.
• Navigating Adobe After Effects: Learn about the interface and the various tools in After Effects.
• Planning to shoot with VFX in mind: How to plan the scenes where special effects have to be added.
• Camera settings: The correct camera settings to shoot on greenscreen.
• Background selection: Selecting a potential background image or footage.
• Lighting a greenscreen: How to correctly light up a greenscreen without spilling colors onto your subjects.
• Shooting on greenscreen: The correct way to light up your subject to match any chosen replacement background
• Keying: Etching out the green matte to create a transparent Alpha Layer.
• Refining your key: Methods to clean up the quality of your keying.

Day 2:
• Creating Atmospheric Fluids (eg: smoke): How to blend stock smoke footage or create your own smoke effects.
• Background tracking: How to track and move your background in relation to your subject.
• Object tracking for screen replacement: Learn how to track a device screen and replace the screen image.
• Text tracking: Placing text elements on a tracked surface or anchor.
• Motion graphics: Adding motion graphics to enhance your scene.
• Adding in new backgrounds: Taking the previous greenscreen footage and adding in the new background.
• Blending the layers together so that everything looks realistic.
• Adding in additional elements: Foreground elements, objects.
• Exporting your video.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Participants will learn step-by-step how to:
• Navigate and identify all tools available in Adobe After Effects
• Plan out specific scenes where VFX have to be added
• How to prepare a green matte correctly
• Light up the subject so that the subject’s lighting matches the planned background
• Extract the greenscreen footage into an Alpha Layer
• Add additional elements to enhance the scene
• Export the final clip to be ready for use










 

  
   Class Details:

• Full-day class from 10am to 5pm

• Meals are excluded.  You can have your own lunch at the restaurants nearby the academy

• Course is divided into 2 sections throughout both day: Theory Session and Practical Session

• We maintain a low student-to-trainer ratio allowing for better learning & shooting opportunities & experimentation with various camera settings

• Participants will receive 2 years of E-Learning access to contents of this course, these include videos, cheat-sheets and also summary notes, which you can watch or download/print at your own convenience

• There is a minimum number of 2 participants for this course