Today a fellow youtuber friend of mine made a big mistake.
Let's get Undone.
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♪ Gerald Undone ♪
♪ He's crazy ♪
What's up Donk Squad? I'm Gerald Undone
and today a fellow YouTuber asked if I could make them
an intro for their YouTube channel.
Now I don't know if they know what they're getting
themselves into here. I'm hoping and I'm assuming that they've
seen my intro, and maybe they're thinking
I'll make something like that,
but I think they've opened up a whole
basket here that they may not be prepared for.
But I figured this would be a welcome distraction
away from the trending test.
We'll just take a little bit of a break from
the tending test and do something a little bit silly.
Just kind of relax a little bit.
So I'll give you an idea of how the conversation went,
so you can see kind of where I'm at.
And I haven't even seen much of this guy's channel yet.
So we're gonna have to look at that too, and see
if we can figure out how to do the intro.
But it went something like this I said-- I've got
the conversation up here, I said "What did you have in mind?"
and he said-- the user by the way
is named Tonic Classic.
Tonic Classic said "Potatoes." So I of course said
"Can you give me a better idea of your vision?"
and I also warned him that my intros
are a little bit cheesy.
And he said "Just some music, and my name,
Tonic Classic, and that's it.
And so I let him know, I said "Yeah, you know.
I can grab my piano or guitar,
and I can yell some crazy lyrics at a microphone
and you know, animate it poorly."
And he said "Just say my name
for some seconds, and add some music."
So we've got pretty uh, pretty open field
of what we can do here. But anyway let's go check
out his channel, and see what we're dealing with.
So we have a better idea of what exactly, you know,
we should make to capture the mood of this guy's channel.
Alright so here we go. We are on Tonic Classic
and he's got himself a channel trailer.
Let's check that out.
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What do we got here? So we got videos.
Let's check them out. So, ATV on Snow,
ATV on Mud, Freeride and Crash.
So it seems that the channel is kind of about,
I don't know, what do you call this? Extreme sports?
I guess, something like that. Okay.
He's got 12 videos.
His channel art says Tonic Classic
and... We've got a guy on a bike.
Let's see if we can't get those art assets from him.
Maybe he's got that--that font that he used, and that logo.
Maybe he's got that. Let's see if we can get that off of him.
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Alright, so I just went and asked him if he can send me
over the logos and the fonts and that kind of stuff.
So we can play with that a little bit.
Let's browse around the channel a little bit more.
See if we can get an idea of what we're working with here.
So... you know, playlists, we got bike.
What've we got in the About section here... Nothing really.
So after chatting with Tonic Classic a little bit,
I asked him if he had any of those photos to send me.
And he's using mostly stock photography.
So none of those photos are his,
and he doesn't have any logos or anything established yet.
So... we don't really have anything to work with.
We're gonna have to start from scratch.
But he did say to "make it in your style. Make it Undone."
So I'm even sure I know what that means anymore.
I guess it just means...
whatever the hell comes to my head.
That's what we're gonna do. So I think maybe first,
the first thing that we need is a song.
-Something-- -[snaps fingers]
you know? A little-
[snaps fingers and vocal trills]
You know jingle?
Jangle? A jingle jangle? We got to get one of those cooking.
All right, so let's do some uh, let's do some experimental...
Music.
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So let's get the guitar.
Alright. What are we gonna do here?
[strumming a chord]
We're talking about mountain biking.
[strumming a scale]
Mountain biking. Mountain biking and...
We can just say his name. Tonic Classic.
It'd be funny if I was pronouncing it wrong
all the time and his name was like "Tonique Class-ike".
Anyway...
[strums]
All right. Tonic. Classic. "Just say my name," he said.
[rhythmically] Just say my name. Just say my name.
[blues-y acoustic strumming]
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Now when it comes to making intros,
I think that shorter is better.
I think you just come up with a really simple
tiny little jingle that always leaves the audience
wanting a little bit more, and leaves them feeling a little
bit like "What was that weird thing I just heard?"
So I've got a little something here.
Maybe we'll work with this, like--
[strumming riff, ending on a low note]
No.
[strumming with higher ending note]
Yeah.
So a little cleaner like this.
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Now, if we're gonna use that because I mean I think
it's got a little jingle quality to it, like--
♪ Bah nah nah nah nah nuh bum, buh ♪
But now we need to like...
So if we're gonna go with that, can we put some words to it,
you know? Let's see what he actually said in the chat.
Maybe we can use his-- Maybe we can use
his actual instructions for writing the song.
He said "My name is Tonic Classic and that's it.
Just say my name." So can we work that in at all?
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
[laughing]
That's bad. It's funny though.
♪ My name is Tonic-- ♪
♪ My name is Tonic Cla-- ♪
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
♪ My name is Tonic-- ♪
♪ My name is Tonic Classic ♪
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
You think that's anything? I dunno, it's kinda funny, right?
So if we go with that, we should record that. And then...
just do something with wacky text.
Because we don't have a picture. We don't have anything to go by.
So I'll try to do one clean recording on it,
so we can play with that. Bring this down a little bit.
Okay.
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
Now to the Photoshop mobile!
So for the next step I'm gonna open up Photoshop,
and I'm gonna try to recreate the font choices
that he made for his channel art on YouTube, so that maybe
we can use that and animate that in some way.
Because we don't really have much.
So I'm gonna do a bunch of stuff in Photoshop now,
and I'm gonna record that.
Then I'll probably time-lapse
it out and do a voiceover.
So that's probably what you'll hear next. Let's do it.
Okay, so I brought the original channel art
into Photoshop here, so I could take a look at the fonts and see
if I could duplicate them.
I started off with the "Classic" font
and I was able to find it very quickly.
It was Century Gothic.
I made a pretty close match,
and I started working on "Tonic".
I couldn't find anything that matched "Tonic",
so I took just the T out
because it had a pretty identifiable shape.
And just thickened it and drew it in a little
bit better, so that when I loaded up in a Font Squirrel
I'd find a better match and it did.
It was a font called "Malaysian."
It wasn't a perfect match but it was pretty close.
And then I just started working with
the "Classic" font that I use.
I changed the colour to purple and imposed it over
top of the original "Classic" font to make
a little bit easier to make some micro-adjustments,
to try to make it fit as best as possible.
Then I switched back to the original colour and tried to
get the stroke to be the same as it was on the original font.
I did same thing with "Tonic".
Here, we're scaling the fonts up in order to get a better quality
out of it than the original.
And then we're just setting some markers to line it up.
Tonic eventually got back to me and sent me this picture
of a four wheeler which he thought I could use
in making the intro. So I took it, but I also wanted
to grab a little sunset scene that we'll see here in order
to try to make the image look a little bit closer
to the original channel art.
So I just superimposed the sunset scene,
lined up the horizons and then masked out a little bit
of the original colour to try to blend them in better.
We just change the blending mode in order
to make it look more like the original channel art,
and added blue to the shadows to capture
the original colour palette.
Then I just added a little bit of a blur effect
in order to make it sit better in the background.
Then we find the center point of the image
so we can put a little bit of a vignette on it.
And then I brought in the original fonts and added
a drop shadow in order to make them pop a little bit.
Here we're working on the fonts for the other
lyrics that we're going to use in the song.
The "My Name is Tonic" section.
Choosing how to place the fonts, and how we want them to appear.
Then we separate the different elements and save
them separately, so we can animate them in Premiere Pro.
We do the same thing for the end "that's it" lyric
and just try to line that up under "Classic" well
so it'll show up in the same spot,
so we can make the positions change.
And then we save out that element separately as well.
Now I needed to bring in the footage
of this video recording so that I could separate
the audio track from the jingle...
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
Let me just cut that piece out and move it to a separate piece
in the timeline so that we can animate the other objects.
I made a little bit of a blue background here in Photoshop,
so I could use it as a transition card
that kind of fits the shadow density.
And then we started putting the pieces together
syncing up the lyrics "my name is" to the way
that the guitar strums hit at the same time.
Did the same thing for "Tonic," the same thing for "Classic,"
and the same thing for "and that's it."
Once I was happy with the way the lyrics were coming in
with position based keyframes as well as cropping, I started
moving on to some video transitions using inversion,
some cross-dissolve, some wipes and opacity adjustments.
And then we just finished off with a zoom of the final logo
zooming into the center of the frame.
This part was rather tedious because a lot of it just
involves listening to the track over, and over, and over again,
and trying to find ways to sync it up perfectly.
All right, well I think that's about done.
So, there you go Tonic Classic. Hope you like it.
Let's watch it one time
full screen, full audio, and see we've got.
By the time this video's over,
I'm gonna hate listening to it so much.
And you guys have probably heard like,
parts of the jingle like, ten thousand times.
But let's give it one more try. Here we go from the top!
♪ My name is Tonic Classic and that's it ♪
Well, that's something. It's definitely not nothing.
That's how you make a YouTube intro with your own
recorded music and cheesy Premiere Pro animations.
All right... I'm done.
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