Screenshot and explanation of after effects

Heating Pot Noodle Effect

To start off with I clicked 'Layer' then went on solid and chose a orange/red colour. I then masked around Maia's hand and that then went orange. I masked the outline to follow her hand when underneath the pot noodle, to then make it more realistic I reduced the opacity quite low and as her hand got closer to the pot noodle i gradually increased it more. I then feathered it to make it look less jaggered.

After I had masked the hand orange i then had to make a smoke effect coming out the pot noodle to show it was heating. I did this by downloading a smoke effect and placing it when i wanted. I then had to position it with key frames to follow the pot noodle. I also changed the opacity gradually so it gradually came in realistically.


Teleportation Effect

To start off with I uploaded my originally footage I wanted to use, then as well a image of the background with no character in it, this was so i could place it after the character had jumped to show he'd disappeared. I then downloaded some free smoke footage off a website which was linked of a youtube video. I uploaded them into my after effects and dragged it into my timeline i was working in. I right clicked on the footage and clicked 'time' then 'time stretch' and changed the stretch factor to 45%.

I then shifted the channels by clicking 'effect', 'channel' then 'shift channels' and i then changed alpha to lightness. Then i removed colour matting  and then brought on a tint which i changed to a cold blue so that my effect was a more realistic colour. I then changed the transfer mode to screen and added an 'expression' to the rotation. I duplicated the smoke footage loads of times and then moved them around to cover the image how i wanted.

Invisibility Effect

To create this effect I uploaded my footage and dragged it into the timeline, i cropped it down to where the actor walks in which was then being used as a clean plate. I brought the file in again and moved the clean plate over underneath the second footage. I then split the layer of that footage.

I began to use to pen tool and penned around the character who i wanted to be invisible.

This gave me a mask which i key framed to follow the characters movement to ensure it stayed invisible, i repeatedly fast forwarded frames and kept changing the key frames to fit round the actor.

As the actor got closer to the characters i reduced the invisibility effect to gradually get rid of it.