construction of red moon pictures

8/9/2019 Construction of Red Moon Pictures

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Construction of Red Moon Pictures Production Titles

The First thing I did when opening a new document in Photoshop was madeblack background and then make a new layer and use the selection tool todraw a circle. In that Circle I then fill it with a pale golden yellow colour.

Next I then made a new layer, control clicked the thumbnail of the yellowcircle layer and then filled it gray. With it filled gray I then selected Filter,Render, Difference Clouds.

Then I made that layers blending mode as Soft Light which adds thatdifference clouds texture to the yellow circle underneath. I then merged thoselayers and brought up the lightness to make it paler.


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Next I then selected an airbrush 50% flow, and added a texture to that brushbeing the clouds texture and with a grey colour on my palette I start to addsome texture to the yellow circle.

I then spherized the circle by selecting the object with control click on thelayer thumbnail and then I went to Filter, Distort, Spherize and then set thespherize dialog box to 100% and clicked okay.


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Next I then added an outer glow and an inner glow of a pale yellow hue. I gaveit a bit of size and some spread, but nothing too over the top to make themoon seem as realistic as possible.


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After this I then made a selection with the circle select tool and pulled it over alarge proportion of the moon I had made after copying and pasting the moononto another layer. I then deleted the selection I had made to leave me with acrescent. This crescent is the crescent Ill use to make a transition form thenormal moon to the blood red moon when imported into After Effects.

To make the moon seem blood red I then went to Image, Adjustments, Hue/Saturation and in the

window I changed the hue until the moon was dark red. Then used the burn tool to make the red

deeper around the edges of the moon crescent. I then made another selection to capture the inner

curve of the circle and then used Gaussian blur to make it seem like its falling into shadow like you

see in an ordinary crescent moon.


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With the layer of the ordinary moon and then the layer of the red mooncrescent these files could then be imported into After Effects as separatelayers so that they could be animated. The next thing I did was open After

Effects and made a new composition with a normal 2:3 dimension.


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I Imported the PSD layer of the ordinary moon onto the composition andmade a layer behind the moon that was dark blue (almost black).

The first thing I did then was add key frames for Transformation in Positionand Scale for the moon layer by opening the submenu under the moon layerand clicking on the stop watches for each of these attributes to tell AfterEffects that I want to add keyframes at these points. At 0 second I had all ofthe setting as shown below.

And then at 2 seconds I made then as shown below:


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As you can see the scale of the object get bigger at 2 seconds by around 6pixels width and height to give the impression that the moon is getting closer.The opacity of the layer also changes from 40% to 100% by 2 seconds in, as ifit is fading in from the background.

Additionally, I also added a Gaussian Blur effect to the layer, which reduces to0% effect by the 2 second mark to make it seem like the moon is moving intofocus rather than simply getting closer. I did this by adding Gaussian Blur andat the 0 second mark clicked the stopwatch for a key frame where the blur isaround 50 pixels in radius.

With these key frames in place it appears that the moon moves into focus byreducing the blur as the timeline progresses from one key frame to the other.


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The next step involved adding another layer to the composition, being the Red

Crescent Moon. I added it the composition and placed this layer above theother one but reduced it opacity to 0%. I then added a keyframe to the 2second mark but kept the opacity at 0%. Moving forward around half a secondthen made the opacity 100% so that the red moon appears on top of thenormal moon.


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However, I want the moon to disappear in replacement for the red moon, andso as it reach the 2 and a half seconds point , I add a key frame for the opacityof the normal moon layer and then reduce the opacity to 0%, so that as thered moon fades in, the normal moon fades out.

The next thing I did was move forward in the time line to around 6 seconds

and added a key frame for the Z rotation of the Red Moon layer. On the ZRotation sub menu I then reduced the rotation to around -15 degrees, but keptit 0 degrees on the key frame around 3 seconds into the composition. Thisway, throughout that 3 second period the red moon appear to rotate afterfading into vision, into a more upright position, leaving space for the text thatwill come.

Next I found a picture of clouds at night and placed it behind the layers but infront of the dark blue. I then reduced the opacity from 100% to 30% for the 0

second point.


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I then made it so that when it got to the 2 and half second point the blue-ishclouds at night texture behind the moons reduced to 0%, by adding a key

frame of 40% opacity at 2 seconds in and a key frame of 0% opacity at 2.5second in, to match the transition from normal moon to red moon.

Next I added a Layer of a blue solid which filled the composition and then tookthe opacity down to around 25%.. I then added the effect Fractal Noise tomake it seem like theres fog or clouds surrounding the moon.


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Under fractal noise, I made a key frame from the 0 seconds point to the 3seconds point for the setting Evolution and Off-set turbulence. By changingthe value in Offset Turbulence the effect image moves from one side of thescreen to the other, giving the effect of motion, whist changing the value ofEvolution changes the difference clouds effect in the fractal noise so that theclouds appear to be transforming and shifting, giving them a lot more life.


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I then added more effects to the blue tint layer to make the clouds morerealistic. With Hue and Saturation at the 2 second point I key framed a bluetint on the hue of the effect while at the 2 and a half second point I keyframed a red hue so that the hue shift from blue to red as the red mooncomes into shot, giving the impression that the appearance of the moon givesa red glow to the atmosphere.


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Next I then added the effect Gaussian blur without any key frames just to

make the clouds blend more, and then I added the effect Turbulent Displaceso that the clouds appear to bulge as the video progresses I did this by addinga key frame at 0 second for the evolution and then making another key frameat 3 seconds where the evolution was changed to +116 degrees to change theshape of the clouds as time moves forward between the two key frames.


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After that I then made another layer by copying the clouds layer to increase

the depth of the effect, but made the opacity reduce to 0% by the time itreached 1 second and made the scale much bigger at 0 seconds, to give theimpression that the camera was zooming through many clouds.

Next I then added the text Red Moon Pictures in two separate layers. I added aRed Glow with the following values below in order to make the text seem moremenacing. The font typeface for the text was Felix Titling. I also clicked thestopwatch for Glow Threshold, Glow Radius and Glow Intensity so that theglowing effect flickered over time when I added key frames.

To animate the text I added a text animation preset called Blur where by

changing the settings of the Offset values and the percentage of blur at eitherends of my desired key frames I manage to give the effect that the text is


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blurring into shot from one end to the other. I also had to set the shape toRamp Down so that the fade happens in time with the movement, and theEase High and Ease Low settings control what end the focus movement occursat.

By applying the settings as shown above I managed to get the effect of a blurshifting from one end of the screen to the other.

Lastly I added a Lens Flare which I made pan across the screen in time whichthe effects on the text to make it seem like the lens flare brought the text intofocus. I did this by firstl creating a nerw black solid the size of the compositionand then adding the effect Lens Flare. In order to make everything visibleunderneath the lens flare and not just a black solid I had to make the layerblending mode Add.


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Then I moved the flare centre from one end of the screen at the start of thetext animation to the other end by shifting the timeline to the point where theanimation ends. By lining this up perfectly I created the illusion that the lensflare moves across the screen to make the text appear. I also changed the

opacity of the lens flare from 0% to 110% at the middle of the movement untilit reached the end at 0% brightness again by adding keyframes.

By getting all of these values just right my animation was complete and theentire video was now finished to satisfaction.

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