Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 2.1)

On Monday's lesson, we were evaluating each other's draft videos to improve whatever shortcomings we had. Mr Sims evaluated our video and gave us a lot of excellent advice that could help us have an even more professional video. He suggested that the information graphics should not be put to the end like we did but instead throughout the video. By this he meant when there was A-roll going on, B-roll can suddenly come on and then back to the A-roll. However, this also meant that I had to redo most of my facts so that it would fit the script and the animations had to be way shorter so that it would match the speaking.

Following what I did before, I started out by planning the different facts I would do; this was my plan:

Statistics I need to animate:

• 7 million people in 1014 square kilometers- Map of Hong Kong or people popping up
• More than 1.5 million people suffer from food insecurity- Map of HK, highlighting 1.5 parts of it
• 19% of people suffering from chronic hunger cannot afford food- Moving pie chart that fills up
• Minimum wage in HK- Kinetic text
• 1 in 4 children don't get three meals a day- Old one
• A powerful quote from the interview section- Kinetic typography

I started off with the first statistic. Since I am deciding to use a map of Hong Kong already for the second statistic, I decided to use the people popping up idea. By this I meant that when the text comes in, the number of people on the slide keeps on increasing and increasing.

I found an icon of people online, used Photoshop to change the colour of it so that it would contrast against the black background. Next I added my text and animated it using the skills I learnt previously. I decided to add a "shadow" to the word 7 million to emphasize the importance of this word. I did this by copying the text and then changing the colour to a different colour than white (I chose a light blue for this).

My slide looked like this: