smog

This is a test of moving smog in water using a mask.....
          -trying to find a mask that has more points and that can curve to look more fluid

Thursday Crit Notes

-for the black water: try a moving mask and color correction in final cut.

-reshoot tarot cards

-consider location of reshoot and the look of the cards

-timing of how long the cards are on screen for.

-consider technical aspects of how to approach the video as a whole.

Intro coming along...

Came across this tutorial. May be useful somewhere in my video... http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/ink-bleeding-effect-in-after-effects-like-gnarls/

Here's a ROUGH intro.  Needs a lot of work... I want to get all of the footage together and then go from there on finishing up the effects and making them look realistic.  The crow is a tough one to get the flight patterns together... not sure if I'm going to keep the look that I have.

Video rendered wrong. The bird flying part has mixed up photoshop layers that are not in the actual animation.  

Wed class

Digitized the Tarot card section.

Modernism/Postmodernism In Class Discussion 

            For my senior studio project I am creating a video.  My video is going to be about how humans destroyed the world.  Modernist did not like how photography changed art so my piece would not be art for arts sake.  My piece has a postmodernist view because of the format that it is in. 

            My video “The End” is about borrowing information and putting it in new contexts.  My video is a story about humans destroying the earth, which has been seen before so the challenge in my piece is to express this story in my own unique different way.  I am also using different mediums to complete this project.  I am using drawing, digital imaging, cinematography, and effects to create this piece.  This video art does not need prior knowledge before viewing it.  Anyone can watch this without a prior message and either take it for what the actual message is or just appreciate the beauty in the shots and effects that are created. 

            I prefer art that does not have a meaning other than being beautiful.  I don’t like how some artist’s crumble up a piece of paper and then try to recreate that and call it art.  Unless it is described in the gallery that the artist recreated the look and the time it took to do it would I really appreciate the work.  In my work I just want it to be pretty.  I don’t think that it has to have an underlying message although if it is pretty and does have an underlying message I think is even better and more appealing.  

Tarot Cards

Finished up the tarot cards today.  Going to print and film the section tomorrow.

Wed Progress

http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/tv-movie-tarot-watch-list/
         "The future is not fixed, it is determined by the choices made in the present."


Creating cards.....

Monday Progress

Digitized more video of Water/ streams and woods.
Did more research on what "game" I should have at the beginning.
             -Either Tarot Card reading showing a human hand laying the cards out OR
             -a Fate Wheel that a human hand spins or manipulates


Fate Definition:  something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot. that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny. a prophetic declaration of what must be.  death, destruction, or ruin.

Tarot card "look"

Crows & "The Look"

I'm spending some time researching the crow a little more and making a few rough sketches.  The crow is a symbol of mystery, magic, and omens and can be associated with death, war, darkness, and destruction.  This will work nicely in my story of how the world was destroyed.

Original

Developing "the look": 

I'm still debating if I want the animation to have real time shots in it or if I
want to make backgrounds in PS

PS rough

real time

Storyboard

After the critique on Thursday last week, I went through and decided to change my original concept of being mostly in video and using final cut to doing it as an animation and using after effects to make this video instead.  Here is the storyboard I would like to use.  

The Title of my video will be "The End" and it will be about how the world was destroyed.  The story will be looked at from a future perspective on the earth that has already been destroyed and looking at the events as if they have already happened.  At the end of the video it will be as if the "Jeopardy board" was an insight of what is going to happen if things on earth don't change.