The goal of this project was to create a ~45 second teaser trailer for the film 'If a Tree Falls'. This piece focuses on the often violent conflicts between police and protesters the film ultimately revolves around.
Final styleframes.
My preproduction process for this piece involved a lot of image sourcing and adapting my storyboard to the images I could get for the narrative I wanted to convey.
Initial story board and visual reference/mood board.
The collage style I went with meant I leaned heavily on Photoshop to treat and assemble my images before taking the compositions into After Effects and animating each layer.
My Photoshop process.
I then brought my .psd files into After Effects with layers that I could animate individually.
Finally, to maximize the integration of sound with the amount of subtle tweaking involved in this project, I built it around the visuals in After Effects directly.