Lyric MV 1

Time to start creating your Lyric Design project! Every class you are required to bring your storyboard and have it out on your desk during class. If you lose it, print it from the photo you took of it.

In After Effects, create a new composition that is 1280 x 720 (screenshot below) and save it in your Google Drive folder (create a new folder called QU4 Project and also save all future checkpoints and work for this project.

Create a new composition that is the length of the song and name it Lyrical Project Your Name. Then create a new composition within the same AE project that is seven seconds since you are just working on the first part. You can later adjust the length (cmd + k) to match the exact intro length.

Songs usually start with a few seconds of music before the vocals come out. During this time, use a vertical pan (does not have to be sky but suggested if you are not sure of an idea) moving up or down and mention the credits like the examples (one, two, three that goes right into the scene of your first storyboard animation background (do not get too crazy with your text animations at the start). For all text, follow the video tutorial (no audio) to apply the text animation.

Song Name

Musician

Animation by Your Name(s)

If you are creating a song with a partner, the partner creating the second half of the song must still create a vertical pan with their first line and the other partner creates a vertical pan with the song title intro at the beginning of the song.

When you create your vertical pan, you will want to create your background in AI and use 1280 px dimensions for the width but for the height, you will make it at least triple the vertical height of the 720 px AE composition depending on how much of a vertical pan you want to have.

Using your storyboard, create the intro and first scene from the first box of your storyboard sheet. If your first scene is very short and does not contain at least a full sentence of the song's first lyrics, then animate it. For the text of the song, follow the video tutorial (no audio) to apply the text animation or a different style of text animation if you feel it will enhance and make it even better. The words should appear when they are sung in the song.

Previously you divided your song to give yourself 10 parts to complete for it. Each of these 10 checkpoint parts will receive a grade based on the rubric and your final project grade will be the average grade of these 10 grades. You can always use a coupon to resubmit one of the 10 checkpoint grades to regrade or turn in late (but not more than two weeks). You may not use a coupon on the final project since your final project grade (worth 20%) is simply an average of these 10 grades.

Export as H.264 and upload to YT and post the link to Schoology.