Jarrett Heather presents: Word Crimes using Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects

By Jarret Heather

The Completed Music Video
In November 2013, "Weird Al" Yankovic asked me to direct an animated video for "Word Crimes", a parody of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" about the supposed abuse of proper language.

The result of 500 hours of work in After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere goes by in 3 minutes, 44 seconds. I hope you find each one of them entertaining.

The Animatic
This storyboard-in-motion took about 100 hours. Al signed off on this design on January 25th, 2014, only 3 weeks after he gave me his homemade "demo" for Word Crimes, which you can hear on the animatic soundtrack.

If you watch very closely, you might notice a gag or two that didn't make it through to final animation or some very subtle changes in the lyrics. read more...