Creating the Twin Screen in After Effects

After Effects is a very complicated software that I had a lot of trouble with. It has taken me weeks to try and grasp the software and get used to it. The ideas I had initially had to be rethought because I couldn't execute them in After Effects.

I thought about what I could actually do on After Effects and then I realised that I can use some skills that I learnt when playing around with the software and trying to get used to it and use them.

I chose to create a simple heart monitor on the software to represent the Digital World.

This is how I ended up doing it!

Heart Rate Monitor

Step 1:

I opened a new composition with a really dark blue background.











Step 2:

I then added a new solid colour layer. Then I used the rectangle tool and created a green rectangle the cover half the screen. After this I used the pen tool and used the 'Add vertex tool' to create 4 vertexes on the rectangle. I then used them to create the zig zag shapes.

                                     

I added more vertexes.







Step 3:

I then added the Vegas effect on the effects. Then on effect controls I changed the Rotation, Blend Mode, Stroke, Width, Colour, Length, Start Opacity and End Opacity to give it the effect I was looking for.







Step 4:

The next step was to add a glow effect onto the line layer and change the radius and intensity.









Step 5:

The Final step was to add a grid effect to it just to make it look more realistic. I changed the opacity to 10% and put it underneath the line layer.







Twin Screen

It's time to add the two compositions onto one composition. To do this I opened a new composition with a 3840x1080 px resolution and a frame rate of 25 frames per second.

To add sound effects to the project, I used a heartbeat and some EKG sound effects to create the beeping effect and added them as layers to the compositions.

Done :)