Charlie's Angells 2: Full Throttle

Transition time brotha…

As a class we have officially begun work with Adobe After effects and are now required to Blog about after effects related compositions.

I chose the film main title Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle from the website Imaginary Forces. The film is a favorite of mine and I always loved the title excerpt, so now to have the chance to closely analyze it is exciting.

This excerpt is a combination of drawn in elements, film clips, and fire. It isn’t very long, but very effective. However, I know that in the movie the title movie is slightly longer with a few more movie scenes for each angel.

Anyways, the movie incorporates three images of each angel, basically an outline and shadow of each girl; it would appear as though the image was cut right out of the layer and that was left is its outline (this is basically towards the end of the excerpt). The movie goes like this: There is a small audio introduction to the three angels, while this is playing three drawn in elements of each girl is moving through the background. Then for each individual angel a certain type of music plays to fit their portrayed personalities, so with the music alone one gets a sense of who these characters are.

Many of the transitions between scenes either involves fire brushing through or some other image moving in; usually moving over and covering the previous image. The way the fire is used is not in a typical fashion, it doesn’t appear as though it is burning the images around it, rather it is moving with them and encompassing the entire frame. The fire is enclosing and revealing images around or from within it; it also seems to move other images or that these images are following it, like a vacuum. For example, the ending of the excerpt involves each letter of the movie (in a metallic form) moving into the scene scattered about. The letters are twisting and turning but as the fire movies from the foreground to the background the letters all seem to be following its direction and they settle in the middle on a drawn in stripe, which appeared slightly behind the fire in the beginning of this particular scene.

The color pallet is basic when it comes to the drawn in elements, the colors aren’t dark per say and they aren’t bright either; the colors seem to be more in the middle. For example, there is basically maroon, blue, tan, and black. So the color pallet is very limited, but with the addition of the fire element and way in which the colors are used, combines to create a very fascinating and exciting effect.

Every element and every frame, scene etc… works very well together; I especially enjoy the shots from drawn in or unreal images to real human video. There is no jumpy transitions everything is full and the video goes very well with the feel of the music from the beginning to the end.

With practice and dedication I know I can only improve myself and with time I will be able to do similar compositions and perhaps even better ones than what I saw here.