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Deciding on mood, story, and typeface

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Deciding on mood, story, and typeface

- The sight of dandelions seeds flowing through air is beautiful. While some people may blow these flowers for more superstitious reasons, people also blow dandelions for visual appeal. Especially, when it's sunny, the dried seeds shimmer in the air and these magical particle sight, is the effect that we are going for in this chapter. I'm going to show you how to create what I'm calling, a dandelion-type effect. It integrate live action with the titles that are referencing a famous tune which I'm sure you know. This technique is suitable for fantasy movies or children tales, or it can be used for a greeting card that represent innocence, youthfulness, and optimism. So this is our main footage and I'm going to play it to you so you can get a sense of our starting point. And you must agree that this is almost magical. I feel that the mood here is very calm, quiet, and mystical, almost Utopian. And I think that we need to choose some type-face that will work with this atmosphere and…

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