chrismoyles.net
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:53 am
#421746
I'll start with bluntness, I think it's rubbish.
It appears to be just a lot of unrelated stock footage of fields and houses with the sun rising, followed by a few animated bits.
Being someone who is very familiar with After Effects and video editing in general, it seemed like quite amateur and general stuff.
The zoom out from a random building in America was taken straight from this tutorial:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/earth_zoom/
Why didn't they even change it to Portsmouth, or failing that, anywhere in Britain?
The other animations seemed rushed too. Like the zoom ins of pictures, for some unknown reason they don't appear to have enabled the Easy Ease effect on the keyframes to make it work smoothly as i presume was planned. There was also a point where some futuristic lock opened onto a blown up version of that picture of the team on a white background. It just ended up looking a bit like one of those fan videos you see made in movie maker for Justin Bieber or someone.
Maybe picky, but for something somebody's presumably been paid a lot of money to make , I'd expect more. For a lot of shows on the TV which don't even have that many viewers, they always have pretty decent titles, so comparing those with this, it just looks pretty poor and unplanned. I can't imagine someone sitting down and thinking 'we'll have a shot of a field, and.. another shot of a field.. and, how many field shots now? right, 1 more of those. then we can zoom out on america.'
Considering the style of the cheesy song, I don't know about anybody else but the video just doesn't get the right tone. I much prefer this little animation from a few years ago, much more suitable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY5-63b1c3M
EDIT: 1 more thing. I like at the lyric 'we're on the red button' that it zoomed in on the red on/off button on a remote. Classy.
It appears to be just a lot of unrelated stock footage of fields and houses with the sun rising, followed by a few animated bits.
Being someone who is very familiar with After Effects and video editing in general, it seemed like quite amateur and general stuff.
The zoom out from a random building in America was taken straight from this tutorial:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/earth_zoom/
Why didn't they even change it to Portsmouth, or failing that, anywhere in Britain?
The other animations seemed rushed too. Like the zoom ins of pictures, for some unknown reason they don't appear to have enabled the Easy Ease effect on the keyframes to make it work smoothly as i presume was planned. There was also a point where some futuristic lock opened onto a blown up version of that picture of the team on a white background. It just ended up looking a bit like one of those fan videos you see made in movie maker for Justin Bieber or someone.
Maybe picky, but for something somebody's presumably been paid a lot of money to make , I'd expect more. For a lot of shows on the TV which don't even have that many viewers, they always have pretty decent titles, so comparing those with this, it just looks pretty poor and unplanned. I can't imagine someone sitting down and thinking 'we'll have a shot of a field, and.. another shot of a field.. and, how many field shots now? right, 1 more of those. then we can zoom out on america.'
Considering the style of the cheesy song, I don't know about anybody else but the video just doesn't get the right tone. I much prefer this little animation from a few years ago, much more suitable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY5-63b1c3M
EDIT: 1 more thing. I like at the lyric 'we're on the red button' that it zoomed in on the red on/off button on a remote. Classy.
Last edited by GottaBeAndrew on Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:22 pm, edited 3 times in total.
I've met billy on security.
Not many of those around anymore.
