1) Over several weeks, the document's author planned and produced an animated E-sting for E4 featuring a man in a field who gets sucked into a flying saucer by the E4 logo. 2) Planning involved researching previous winners, developing ideas, storyboarding, and creating asset and legal checklists. 3) Production used Illustrator to draw background elements, spaceships, and characters, then After Effects to animate them with keyframes over time. Elements included a changing man, falling E4 logo, and flying/fading spaceship. 4) The completed E-sting was then imported into Premier Pro with a soundtrack added.

1. E4 E Sting Production Log
Week beginning 04/11/2013
During this first week I concentrated on the
research for my E4 E sting, by looking at the E4
website, the E4 E sting competition itself and the
previous year’s winners and runner up’s E stings.
This gave me a much better insight on what E4 are
looking for in an E-sting.
Week beginning 11/11/2013
During this week I concentrated on my ideas generation, I created two mind maps consisting
of a variety of different ideas all of which were random and weird which is what I found E4
were looking for when I conducted my research the previous week and all featured the E4
logo. By the end of this week I had decided to go with the idea of an animation where a man
walking through a field, a space ship flying in, beaming down the E4 logo, attracting the man
and as a result he gets sucked up into the spaceship.
Week beginning the 18/11/13
During this of this week I concentrated on the planning for my E-sting. This week I created a
detailed story board for my E-sting.

2. Week beginning 25/11/13
This week I continued working on the planning for my E4 E-sting. , I created a legal and
ethical checklist, an asset list consisting of everything I needed in order to create my E-sting
and where I would get these from.
Week beginning 02/12/13
Although my working schedule said that I would begin the production stage for my E-sting
last week, i found that the planning stage was more time consuming than I had planned it to
be, therefore this week I started the production stage.
Firstly I created the background for my E-sting, I
did this by using illustrator. I set the background
to blue so that this could be the sky, I then used
the shape tool to create the moon and finally
used the pen tool to draw the grass and added
colour.
I then created a new layer and used the shape tool to create the stars. And finally on a new
layer I used the shape layer again to draw the space ship.
Week beginning 09/12/13
This week I continued to work on the production for my sting. Although I felt the
background and space ship I drew in illustrator was suitable for my E-sting, I decided that I
would start again and do a more improved version, to do this I found an image off Google,
then used illustrator to draw over this using a combination of tools such as the shape tool to
create the moon, the symbols tool ‘Grass 3’ to create the grass and a vertical gradient fill
from black to blue through purple to create the background and the shape tool, horizontal
gradient fill from dark blue to dark blue through light blue and a texture effect.

3. I also decided to create a more improved space ship to go with the improved background,
again in order to do this I took an image from Google and drew over it using illustrator and
the shape tool.
Week beginning 16/12/13
Again i focused on the production stage of my E-sting this week, focusing specifically on the
animated man for my E-sting. I found that I had to create 3 versions of the animated man all
with different facial expressions. In order to do this i used the pen tool to create the men’s
body and created 3 copies of this, after which I made 3 heads with different facial
expressions, using a combination of the shape and pen tool, I then grouped each head to a
body.

4. I then took the E4 logo from Moodle and inserted it into the same illustrator document as
the 3 men.
Week beginning 06/01/14
After finishing all drawing all the elements needed to
create my E-sting in illustrator, this week I focused on
putting the actual E-sting together in after effects. Firstly I
created a new project and inserted all of my illustrator
images.
I created a shape layer and inserted the cc
practical world effect in order to create the stars
for the background for my E-sting. After which I
had to have the spaceship fly into the animation
from the right hand side of the screen and
stopping at the left hand side of the screen,
therefore I added a key frame at the beginning
of the animation, changed the position and scale
of the space ship layer and then added another
key frame 2 seconds into the animation.
Whilst the space ship was entering the screen, I
also needed the first animated man to come on
the screen from the right hand side, therefore on
the “man01” layer I added a key frame at the
beginning of the sting, changed the position and
scale and then added a second key frame at
approximately 1.5 seconds. I then needed the
man’s facial expression to change therefore I
removed the layer “Man01” at approximately
1.5 seconds and inserted the layer “Man02” at
the same time.

5. Week beginning 13/01/14
I needed the e4 logo to fall down from the space ship, therefore I inserted the e4 logo
behind the spaceship and added a key fame at 2 seconds, changed the position and scale
and then added a second key frame at 6 seconds.
I then needed the man’s facial expression to chance again; therefore I removed the layer
“Man02” at 6 seconds and inserted the “Man03” layer. After which I needed the man to
walk over to the E4 logo, therefore I added a key frame at 6 seconds, changed the position
and then added a second key frame at 8 seconds.
Week beginning 20/01/14
The production stage took longer than expected and therefore I have run over my
scheduled time.
Now I needed the man to be sucked up into
the spaceship. Firstly I had to add a key frame
to the layer “Man03” at 8 seconds, changed
the position so that the man moved up the
screen towards the space ship, and then added
the second key frame. Also I wanted the man to
fade out so that It looked like he had gone into
the space ship. Therefore at approximately 8.5
seconds I added a key frame to the layer
“Man03” with the opacity 100% and then
added a second key frame to the layer at 9
seconds with the opacity at 0%.

6. I then needed the space ship to fly off up the screen; therefore I added a key frame to the
layer “Spaceship” at 8.5 seconds, changed the position and then added the second key
frame at 9 seconds.
I needed the E4 logo to move into the middle of the screen and increase in size, therefore I
added a key frame to the “E4 logo layer” at 9.5 seconds changed the position and scale and
then added the second key frame at 10 seconds.
Finally I imported my E4 sting to premier pro and added the soundtrack.