I love to go down to the water at low tide and look for intertidal animals, and I think it’s a great way for anyone to learn more about ecology, gain knowledge of local ecosystems, and build empathy and care for the natural world. For this project, I wanted to use some of the video clips I already have from those excursions to promote awareness of some of the cool things you can see at low tide.
Rather than using photos on the poster, I thought a bold graphic with a mysterious message would create a sense of intrigue and excitement. I designed the poster in Illustrator with a simple animation concept in mind that would segue into the nature clips in my video. The video/animation was created in AfterEffects.
I actually found this project pretty smooth and straightforward. The biggest challenge I encountered were remembering the basics of AfterEffects. It also took me a couple of tries to realize that I had to tap the “done” button at the end of the Eyejack upload process for my project to actually be published, but that wasn’t difficult to figure out.
The video clips are mine. The song is Swans in Flight by Asher Fulero via YouTube’s audio library, which is also where the wind sound effect at the beginning (which is pretty quiet) is from.