Friday, May 28, 2010

E-Media: Human Movement


Initial Ideas: My initial idea for the loop project was to have a gymnast do a back flip from the left side of screen to the right of the screen until he is out of frame. This would then create a seamless loop as the person would constantly be entering and exiting the screen. This idea was story-boarded and a gymnast was organized for the shoot, though the shoot was cancelled the day before as the gymnast broke his ankle so i had to make another loop instead.

Intent: The intent for this project was to create a 10 second - 1 minute loop, throughout the lectures i became very interested in several artists works that was inspired by human movement. I was particularly interested with the concept of the advertisement that sony used for its new motion flow television.


My next concept still involved using human movement, i arranged a group of break dancers for my next shoot in the alley way behind the centre point shopping centre. The shoot involved filming their aerial and break dancing moves. The idea behind this shot was to use one of their single moves and loop it seamlessly to look like the move would never end. Whilst editing the footage i found this quite difficult to do as the dancers were not landing the moves in the exact same spot. I edited the video below to show in the critique, this was a rough cut of some of the footage from the day. I explained my initial concept and showed the rough cut and mentioned that it could be possibly be used as a loop it self in a DVD menu. It was decided in the critique though that i should try and get one of these moves of human motion in a loop itself, which i completely agreed with as this was my initial concept.
After the critique i rescheduled another shoot and shot single shots of particular moves. Whilst shooting the single moves i also shot close up cutaways to use a back up shot in case the moves were not seamless. The video below is an example from the shoot.

Human Movement- Loop from Robert Harrison on Vimeo.



The video below is the finished version of the loop, it was slowed down in Final Cut Pro to 10% of its original speed. This was done to emphasise the movement of the breakdancer with trailing motion blurs of a low frame rate. The music was also slowed down to the same speed as the vision so the music beats still matched the dancers moves.

Human Movement - Head spin ultra slow motion from Robert Harrison on Vimeo.




Reflection: In reflection of this project, i think it was really effective in achieving what i initially set out to do. The loop shows quite a different approach to visualizing human movement and illustrates images that the ordinary public generally does not see everyday. This loop was made to be shown in a gallery space viewed on a large screen or projector. Even though the beginning of the production for this project was set back a few times the end result was worth the extra effort. Throughout the editing i learnt a few new features in magic bullet looks for colour grading techniques and this helped in achieving a graphic look to the production.

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