Creative process – video 2
Yesterday, the first version of the video was shown on the screen for a while and I felt that the brightness of the screen at school was a bit higher. I thought the exposure of the video was normal when I watched it at home, but yesterday it felt a lot brighter overall. For this reason I prepared videos with different exposure levels and went to try out which exposure level was the right one.
On the way home yesterday, I had a discussion with Jiachen and she felt that the Esquisse d’ensemble section was still too bright when the rain. So I toned down the exposure for the clip at 10-15 minutes. On top of that, we all felt that the first ten minutes of the video was a picture, and it didn’t feel like it was a video until the tenth minute when it was raining. And there was no sense that the two pictures were blending. Jiachen told me that she had seen a phone app that made the pictures move. So I went home and looked into it, but the resolution of the video produced by my phone was too low. So I searched for a tutorial about After Effect and I made the middle effect. And at the time we were talking about a word – black hole – so the middle was a moving effect with the surround things coming together towards the middle slowly. But I felt that this was still not enough and I bought a video material of particles. For this clip I chose the Linear Dodge (add) mode and then adjusted the opacity value. It was originally blue in colour, but I pulled the saturation down to the lowest possible level to give it the white colour I wanted.
When using AE to create the effect in the middle, I felt that the principle was similar to creating it on mobile. The facts tell me that the principle is indeed similar, which is to circle the area you don’t want to move and then draw the movement track in the middle. But the operation of AE is much more complicated than the mobile app. And basically my computer would get stuck for a while when I did a step. To sum up, using AE is all about using a mask to select areas outside the middle and making sure they don’t move. Then using keyframes, set a start position and then drag the point on the image to set an end position and it will create a 3 second movement. Then use Final cut to turn it into a 15 minute video, with an overlay transition effect added between the video and the video to achieve the effect now, with a constant loop of movement.