You dream of producing a video or any kind of audiovisual project and you hear about editing, animation, and special effects all over the place. So you wonder what these terms mean, what they imply and what they consist of. Today, we’re going to answer all your questions and talk to you about the different steps that go into them. If you wish to follow a training course in the audiovisual field, you can turn to the MJM school.
The key elements of an audiovisual production
Motion design
It’s graphic design. Motion means movement, animation, while design means artistic creation. It is therefore a set of animation techniques that mix these two skills in order to produce animated films, credits, videos in motion design.
It consists in giving life to graphic elements by animating them and this by incorporating at the same time video, 2D or 3D animation or special effects, its steps are as follows:
- Client brief
- Script
- Storyboard
- Moodboard
- Model
- Animation
- Rendering & Assembly
3D animation
Is defined as a digital animation technique corresponding to the animation in
volume in a virtual world.
The steps of the 3D animation are as follows:
- The design of the initial object
- Modeling
- Animation.
Video editing
It consists in selecting, modifying, processing, and assembling several video sequences so that they are coherent in a logical sequence, called film or video.
As for the editing stage, it is essential for the
production of a video, in a simpler way, the editing steps are as follows:
- Capturing the video
- Writing the script
- Editing the film
- Video encoding
Special effects: these are techniques used in the field of cinema to create the illusion of certain actions and can be used during filming, after filming or by combining the two. They are used to simulate objects, characters or phenomena that do not exist or cannot be filmed at the time of filming.
Filmmakers use them in particular in fantasy and science fiction films and they must come as close to reality as possible.
Now, if after having had a general idea about all these terms and their uses and you still want to deepen your knowledge, our advice may be to follow a professional training in a school specializing in these subjects, such as the one provided by MJM, this school of applied arts and Graphic Design, offers several courses including 2D/3D animation, motion design, editing and special effects.
