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.