The main theme for my DVD is to do with a room I created for a client a while back but I loved how the scene was lit. This has lead me the the idea of my menus being on blinds. This could be quite confusing for the user at first because they just see a mass of colour with some form of bar at the bottom. To make this less confusing, I have created animations to go on top of my backgrounds. The blinds will come down and then the buttons will appear, when they select the next menu, the blind goes up and then another, different colour blind comes down.
I created this on Maya and then edited it in After Effects to get my desired effect but this is how it looks:
This is the beginning of my showreel but the blind will have different things on different menus. The blind will also be in different positions depending on which menu and different colours.
I had a few problems making the buttons because I couldnt get the text to change colour on the rollover which meant that the user did not know what they were selecting. However, I wanted it to be perfect so I had to recreate the whole background with my name and things on, to get the overlay colours correct so they would then change colour on select and activated.
I have never used DVD studio pro before and I still do not know what half of the tabs mean and what they do but I have managed to make a DVD with animations between the menus and music. Now all I need to do is add the content. DVD studio has been difficult and frustrating at times but so is all new software. I think I have managed to produce a good shell of a DVD with good menu interchanges. I hope it doesnt all go wrong when I add the content.
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