Week 10 Tutorial Exercise

PART 1: Mood BoardI was motivated to use a 1970s inspired mood board for this piece. The mood board was created in inDesign using images obtained from flickr and deviant art as well as google images. The first row is the mood for the colour swatch, ie hyper colour. The second row contains images that I wanted to use to develop themes within the clip; and the third row is used to highlight human behaviour in the 70s and its quirks.

PART 2: video manipulation according to mood board

I achieved the gradual discolouration effect by using the 'colourama' plugin in After effects. The effects samples colour shades and alpha channels in the source video and applies a coloured pattern to it. I used this effect across keyframes at 2 second intervals, in conjunction with layers and transparency to achieve a hypnotic, hyper-coloured video. I felt that this was fairly successful considering the original footage was gray scale.

PART 3: motion tracking

For this peice i used a simple exclamation mark accompanied by a sound alert from the 1998 playstation one hit, Metal Gear Solid. The motion tracking wasn't straight forward for this piece as in 3 seperate areas AE was unable to accurately track the movement, to counter-act this I ran the motion tracker in three stages. The first tracked the inital movements, the second tracked movements from the zoomed out view, and the third stage tracked the motion of the turtle falling into his shell into the 'duck and cover' position. I also used a subtle transition on the exclamation mark. I found motion tracking to be a very easy and effect way to include dynamic graphics into motion video and think it has many useful future applications.

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QUT REFERNCING: HAVARD http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/harvard/examples/other.jsp#artwork