BG Animation

AE Setup

Make sure your composition size is the following.

I noticed some students had the wrong dimensions and was not widescreen.

It should be widescreen like the example below.

AE Duration

Now that you know how long your BG2 animation should be (look at your MP3 BG2 narration time and add 5 seconds), use that as your AE composition time. Your background has to be a minimum of 15 seconds (10 second minimum narration with 5 seconds of extra time: 2 seconds before your narration starts and 3 seconds after it ends). Name the composition BG2 in the same AE file and of course, always back it up on your computer, Google Drive, and a USB flash drive so you won't lose it.

Animations

Also, just like in BG1, you have to have two group of objects or object animate in your background. Be creative but not awkward animations. Also, the two background animations have to be different animations than in previous background animations. Although, if you have repeated objects from previous backgrounds and they were animated, they must continue to be animated whenever they appear in your story but they do not count as new animations in your backgrounds (e.g. clouds moving). Make sure your animations are realist. For example, don't make super fast clouds moving or a sun that rises really fast. Again, be creative and realist.

When you animate your characters according to the story line, each character has to be animated in some way in each background. This animation does not count towards your background animation.

For your new animated background objects and character animations in BG2, you must use each of the TRAPS (opacity, rotation, anchor, position, scale) tools and puppet tool in some way either in your background or in your character animation.

In Schoology, list TRAPS vertically (below) and "Puppet" and list the object or character that represents that animated abbreviation:

T-

R-

A-

P-

S-

Puppet-

Then upload your BG2 video with your narration. After you submit it, view the student's video above yours and say one thing you like about their animation and one thing they could do to help it improve. If you forget to comment, it is 5 points off.