Lesson Task – Advertisement in After Effects

In this lesson task, you are in need of a green screen background. 

During this lesson I have touched on many things that should help you understand the possibilities of After Effects. I would now like you to create your own Apple iPod advertisement.

It should be similar in style to the one shown at the beginning of this lesson (below).

Your ad should be cut to any music track of your choice

It should be 30 seconds in length

It must have an animated background

It needs to use colour graded and keyed footage

So I made a green screen of a green textile found in my house, got my daugther to film me, and I just improvised and danced a bit in front of the camera.

The background has a 4 color gradient with glow, and the stars zooming out in a loop has a saber effect to make the glow. For me I used the Roto Brush tool to remove the background, and put color on it with ramp effect.