Alfred State Graphic and Media Design Portfolio
Assignment Information
Name of Assignment: Camera Depth of Field Exercise
Class: Motion Graphics
Due Date: 3/29/2021
Date Posted: 3/27/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Assignment Description: Using shape or text layers we created, we needed to manipulate camera effects to shift the focus on 3D layers. The exercise needed to be at most ten seconds long.
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Name of Assignment: Project 3 — Fashion Video Composite
Class: Special Topics Art & Design – Compositing
Due Date: 3/26/2021
Date Posted: 3/24/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects
Music: Timecrawler 82 – Turbulence
Project Description: Taking what we previously learned in the previous assignment, we were to make a video composite in a similar fashion but for a fashion brand. We also needed to create our own backplate.
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Name of Assignment: 3D Text Exercise
Class: Motion Graphics
Due Date: 3/22/2021
Date Posted: 3/21/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects
Assignment Description: Using techniques covered in class, we were tasked with making a 3D text piece with animated lighting. The video needed to be 5 seconds long, the shadows cast by the text needed to look realistic, and the lights needed to be animated with motivation to present the chosen word(s).
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Name of Assignment: Text Animator Exercise
Class: Motion Graphics
Due Date: 3/17/2021
Date Posted: 3/16/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects
Prompt: Ice Cream on a Hot day
Assignment Description: Using only text and/or symbols, we had to illustrate a given prompt using range selectors and text animators. The piece had to be about six seconds long.
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Name of Assignment: Project 2 — Video Composite
Class: Special Topics Art & Design – Compositing
Due Date: 3/12/2021
Date Posted: 3/10/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects
Project Description: The goal of this project was to experiment with Adobe After Effects green screen keying. We had to take a short video of ourselves doing a simple motion and mask it onto a backplate.
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Name of Assignment: Lower Thirds Exercise
Class: Motion Graphics
Due Date: 3/8/2021
Date Posted: 3/5/2021
Program: Adobe After Effects
Assignment Description: We were tasked with creating a “lower thirds” motion graphic to pair with and add context to a video. We needed to shoot the video and create/animate shape and text layers to create a dynamic and unique lower thirds banner. The exercise could be humorous, but needed to be clean and portfolio-worthy.
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Julie Elwood 