24 title effect

[Tony Bartolucci]

hmm, this would be interesting indeed. Sorry I couldn’t help out with an answer, but I will be interested in seeing the answers that this thread does get…

[Richard Sutcliffe]

If using a font, try the preset effects (Im referring to 6.5 pro) there is a flash transition to flare each letter and also a decoder fade up which will go through random characters before resolving to the one you have typed. All these have adjustable parameters so I am sure you could make something approx to what you are after

[Adam Bennett]

This was in a book I read – they discussed how it was done. I can’t remember exactly, but I know they filmed the titles off some glass or something to get the organic effect.

[Mike Smith]

[jhbrewer] “non-comedic parody” Interesting challenge: how are we defining parody here? Or is this a post-modern, non-parodic posting …?

[Jhbrewer]

Mike_S: I’m sorry, but I don’t know the differences between post-modern parodies and whatever else there is, so I can’t catch whether it’s sarcasm or not. I’m a sophomore in high school, and I’m doing this video project for an AP US History class. On previous projects, my partner-in-crime and I have parodied other video programs, such as the internet series Red vs. Blue and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (so I guess we parodied a parody). The focus of those two was primarily comedic, with some information on the project laced in. This project, a parody of 24, will be primarily focused on using the 24 method of telling a story, in this case that of the annexation of Hawaii (which is actually very interesting). We’re trying not to shove jokes down the audiences’ throats, since I’ve never seen comic relief in 24.

Thank you for your other replies.

[Ryan Hill]

Okay. I haven’t seen 24, so I’m just going by your description.

Fast random motion can be acheived with a wiggle expression. If you want to make the wiggle more violent over time, you can pick-whip the parameters of the wiggle to some animated sliders. I don’t know from your description if you’d apply it directly to the text layer’s position, or to your glow effect.

One thing you can use is you can duplicate the 24 layer, and then apply a radial blur. (Though, if this is what it looks like then maybe a directional blur is more suitable. Often, if I think the blur is too smooth, I’ll apply some high contrast film grain before the blur.

[Jhbrewer]

I’ll try a wiggle expression. I’m not very familiar with applying expressions, but I’m pretty good with algebra and I’ve coded a little (and I mean a little) in C++, so maybe that’ll help. I think I’ll wiggle the masks’ opacities (separately, of course) for starters. I may have to keep the first couple or three, as they MUST coincide with the sound.

As for the picture you linked, that is a 24 logo, but the one on the show’s intro doesn’t have the reddish blur behind it. It’s more like there is a backlight partially illuminating all of the bars, so I put in two eight digits and turned their opacity down to 40%. I keep forgetting, but I need to blur those.

I wish there was a copy of this on the net, I would capture it and upload it, but I was borrowing a capture card from my friend and he needed it back. Bad luck.

Thank you, this’ll keep me busy for a few hours.

[Jhbrewer]

Good news! Kind of.

I was able to create a baseline for what I want. Here’s the expression I attached to the mask opacity property:

(1/(gaussRandom(1, 8))*100

I was able to get it to do what I want (thank you Algebra II!). I read the description of gaussRandom and the “within the range 90% of the time” hooked me, and it only took a few minutes to figure out how to make it suit my purposes to be out of the range 90% of the time, basically a semi-random on/off. Here’s what it does. First, it generates a random number that will be between 1 and 8 90% of the time. Then, this number is put under 1 (inverting its extremeness) and is multiplied by 100.

However, the change is much too fast. I was wondering if anyone knows how to force the expression to run every 5 frames or something. I don’t really care how, I just need it to slow down. Wait! An idea! I’m going to try to precompose it and then time stretch! I’ll try that now. Post any ideas anyway.

[Jhbrewer]

Okay, I was able to use time remapping to manipulate the “velocity” of change with the gaussRandom expression. I haven’t figured out how to do the flares and such, but that’s all secondary.

If anyone has any ideas on that stuff, it’d be greatly appreciated. And also, I’m not using the font for this stuff. I don’t want to buy it for $100, so I’m using a page at a font site that generates bits of text in the font. I then take it into Photoshop and manipulate it to fit my needs, so I can’t use the animate in or out stuff.

[Thehardmenpath]

Create an adjustment layer for glowing. Put different values for intensity and radius on every frame.

I would do the effect of the lighting with two layers, one with a bit of choke matte effect, and blur. With the right ammounts of orange and white balance, and perhaps the 32 bit feature, (but I can’t tell you much about it cause I only have seen it, not used it) you can make it look like a glowing bulb.

Some bits of the 24 logo effect are made by putting a bit of directional blur also for only one frame.

There’s a kind of graphic bed for only a few frames, a red glow on the whole screen. And don’t forget to make four or five frames of the logo a lot bigger and with insane ammounts of glow, just before we see the final 24.