EVE WHELAN

In the heart of the sea-book trailer from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . The task for the second After Effects workshop was to create a ten second book trailer from a storyboard of our own illustrations. The book I chose was In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathanial Philbrick. The book is an excellent story, based on the truth and is the story that inspired Moby Dick. It begins in the small town of Nantucket, a whaling town that relies heavily on whale oil. A whaling ship, The Essex, sets out on a brave voyage from which it doesn’t return. I wanted to summarise the plot through my own illustrated images; this is the first time adding sound into an After Effects project. I wanted to add a tense instrumental piece in the background, although the sound works with certain parts of the video, I think a better soundtrack choice could have been made.  

In the first typography workshop the task was to create a few different font styles by using the letters A, E, G, N and S. Those five letters are seen as the best letters to begin with when creating a font because it is a good chance to start on parts of the letters that will be used throughout the font. For example, the curves of the S, the lower extension of the G and the standard lowercase height and width of the A, E and N. The fonts were inspired by given images, the A, S and G were inspired by skyscrapers and the colourful E, A and S by a Bob Dylan album artwork. My favourite of the three are the building letters however they were the most time consuming to draw.

T he first InDesign workshop was used to learn the basics of InDesign and how to use the grid. The task was to recreate four graphic posters of increasing difficulty. The first was fairly simple with straight lines, 90-degree angles and some placeholder text. The fourth consisted of many more curves, angles, shapes and elements that were to be layered in a certain way. This was a useful task to get to grips with some of the basic tools InDesign has to offer, before moving on to more complex designs and documents. Below are my four recreations of the posters we were given.

Isolation from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . After the first After Effects workshop I wanted to create a second short video in the same style; this time using photos that all fit into the same theme. This series of photos of a friend was taken in a park local to home. I experimented with trying to create more of an atmospheric feel in the photos with the dark, empty surroundings and the lone street lamp lighting. I also tried to experiment with light from a torch and long shutter speeds. I am pleased with the result; I think this video turned out better than the first attempt with all of the images matching the theme of isolation.