Stabilisation

Mat was helping me try to stabilise the camera on my videos so that it didn't move around as much. This was a brilliant idea and I didn't know it was possible but unfortunately it didn't work with most of the clips. Here's what we did:
We opened the video in After effects
-drag the file onto the film strip to make a new composition
-make composition with footage
-double click the footage on bottom left
-find a starting point and click the mark in tool {
-take it to where you want it to end and click mark out }
- right click the composition window (bottom left)
-composition settings
-change the duration time to the length of the chosen clip
-go to the tracker window (bottom right or in tools) 
-select layer
-stabilise motion
-move tracking point to a fairly constant point on the image
-scale the outer square
- click analyse (right arrow) 
- go through each point making sure its correct and move it if you need to
- use page up and down buttons to move through frames
-click apply, x and y
-scale up the image so there are no borders
Then click play and see if it's better!

Unfortunately a lot of my clips shook so much that you had to scale up so much that you lost half the image or it still looked like everything shook at the end. This would have been a great idea and certainly something to remember for the future. I'm glad I learnt this.

Finished

I have finally finished my animation! Such a relief, I thought this day was never going to come!! I decided to edit my timeline on photoshop, I was going to use premiere pro but it was slowing my computer down and I couldn't figure out how to get the timeline the same in both, I still don't even know if that's possible. I used key frames and opacity for the trasitions and I changed the order of the scenes to what I think went best with the words that I chose. I feel it works much better now and I am much happier with it. I am still not a fan of the flickering but my peers seemed to like that. 
I think in heinsight it was a big task to rotoscope this but I am glad it is finished. In some ways rotoscoping was good because I could watch telly while doing it or talk to people or leave it for an hour or two and get straight back into it without worrying too much what I had to do. 
Overall I can't say if I did or didn't like this project... I liked it to start with when we were planning and experimenting but after a while I got fed up of it. I'm glad we were given a long time to do it though this gave me chance to work harder on the research and not worry too much about getting the animation done quickly.
Here is my pretty much finished version though I may alter the sound at a later date.